Friday, August 31, 2012

Hey, I just met you...


            The first few days of class have proven to be – trying. Arbitrary room and time changes with sometimes as little as a five-minute heads-up (online, no less) have gotten the best of most of us. My schedule still isn’t finalized, and I need to go into town on Monday to pay my university fees. The wifi still won’t let me connect (I’m on the guest network), and life has been frustrating of late.
            On the plus side, I have successfully done laundry for the first time! It was remarkably straightforward, though I hope I’m not jinxing myself by saying so. I have also met a couple more Moroccan students, most of them being guys. A couple of outgoing girls will make an effort to get to know me, so I’m not sure if it’s a cultural thing or if I’m just naturally more comfortable around guys.
            Either way, tonight we did something so remarkably normal I still can’t believe it happened – we went bowling. A bunch of us international students and a handful of Moroccan students went into town to have dinner, and then we went bowling. The place only had six lanes, and it reeked of cigarette smoke (but then, a lot of buildings here do), but it played music like “Call Me Maybe” and Katy Perry songs.
            Tomorrow we’ll be going into Fes, if we can get everyone together in a decent amount of time. That’s another downside of Moroccan time sense; coordinating trips is going to be a bitch. Hopefully my next post will be detailing the wonders of Fes!

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