Friday
Happy Birthday Chaimaa!
It was an early morning and I was able to get on the internet and get a lot done that needed doing. I had lunch with my family (couscous Friday!) and watched mean girls, which was so funny to watch with them. They show the weirdest movies here! Afterwards I went back to the library and I watched glee with Chandra so now I' all caught up and let me tell you we set up a fort in the libary so that we could watch it in there. it was so much fun! So we talked to Badrdine, one of our teachers, and he said that El Jadida would be the best weekend trip so I think we're going to head over there. After our library session, I got Chaimaa (I just found out I've been spelling her name wrong the whole time!) a birthday present (a really cute shirt) and went back to my house.
I realized that I actually left out a few details from my village stay blog. Like, for example, that our host grandma had a lazy eye. and no teeth. and her nickname was grandma Igor. and that Hadija, the younger sister and I bonded as 2nd children and listened to music together. It was so cute because she never got tired of playing with the volume and switching songs.
Saturday
Woke up at 5am to a text from Chandra that she's sick! So no travelling for us =( but nbd. I got to sleep in a little and went for a nice run by the beach. It's a little chilly today and it looks like it's going to rain. I ran by the beach again (I think it's my favorite run) and the waves were enormous! It was a nice run, getting out some of the frustration of not being able to communicate with home and be there for my family. My great uncle passed away while I was in the village and I would have loved to have been in Massachusetts to be with my family, but here I am in Africa. It was nice to get some of that frustration out in a nice intense run. It's so overcast and chilly (I mean it's probably in the high 60s... that's chilly here. hahaha) that I think today may be a movie and catch up on assignments day. We have 3 papers due on Friday so I think those should happen.
And of course procrastination took over. It started to seriously downpour and my whole host family, mw and Ahmed's friend ended up watching movies almost all day. In the middle of one of them, Chaimaa texted me and told me her boyfriend is in Rabat for the day. She had mentioned earlier that the shirt I got her for her birthday was too big, so I asked her if she wanted to go return it for another. She mentioned the rain, but I told her I don't mind. When we left it had actually stopped raining. So we went to the store in the souk where I bought it and luckily the guy was nice enough to let her pick out another shirt. We definitely ended up with the better deal because she picked out a more expensive shirt which looks awesome on her, Then I got a text from Chandra saying that she's going crazy with boredom, so I told Chaimaa to go hang out with her bf while I went with Chandra and text me when she was ready to go home. Is this what it feels like to be an older sister? In any case, the whole thing made me miss Tricia soooo much. So I hung out with Chandra for a while (she has a fever and threw up a few times) and we just chatted. I got a call from Chaimaa and we went back to the house. During dinner we watched the Matrix, which they had never seen before. By the time it was over we were exhausted and called it a night. It's so weird because in the US I wouldn't even be thinking about sleep until after 11, but here sometimes I'm exhausted by 10. Idk.
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