Catch up

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. Alot has happened since I last wrote; I'll try to think of a few highlights

1)I helped put out a house fire in the neighborhood I live in. My friend David, his host brother Mehdi, and I were hanging out on the roof of David/Mehdi's house. We heard an explosion from the street below, at which Mehdi got up to see what was going on. He signaled us too look and we saw that there was a window about two houses down that had smoke and flames pouring out of it. We immediately ran down and out into the streets. People were running around, yelling, and carrying people out of the burning house. David, Mehdi, and I ran back into David's house and started to fill buckets up with water. Other people were doing the same. We would bring the buckets down and rush them to the fire where people would give them back to be refilled. We succesfully put the fire out, before the fire department got there. Noone was hurt which was good. And rumor has it that it started because of a love triangle took a turn for the worse...

2) I went to a soccer game of one of the teams of the city of Rabat (there are two teams). The name of the team is FAR. It finally made sense to me because I had been seing the word FAR spray painted on buildings all over the city. It turns out that is the handy work of the notoriously wild fan base. The game was great and I got to meet some of the fan base dubbed the UAR. I have since become a FAR fan and got my very own jersey. The jersey attracts alot of attention as I will be walking down the street and frequently recieve a "Vive Le FAR!!". Or sometimes I got a more negative comment from the fans of FAR's rival, RAJA (a team from Casablanca). I hope to catch another game.

3) I've discovered that there are few things better than a fresh pomegranite on a hot day

I've reached the point now where I know what I will miss after going back home to Morocco. I'll miss the crowdedness of the narrow, busy souks. People yelling, talking, arguing, and vendors yelling off their price. I'll miss hearing Arabic music blasting out of shops as you pass. I'll miss turning down a narrow Medina road and seeing it filled with smoke, and smelling cooking meat as you pass through it. I definitly still have alot of time to enjoy these things, but I think those are the things I will miss.

Tomorrow I leave for Chefchaouen, Ouzzane, Fnideq, and Spain.