Friday: Day of Cous Cous

Breakfast in our salon before meeting to go to Saleh, Rabat's sister-city for a conversation with Moroccan students about "images of each other" etc. My phone's alarm went off even though the phone is turned off...it did this every morning and I can't turn the alarm off because I don't know my pin number to turn on my phone...soooo weird.

In Saleh we had tea and treats and interesting conversation with the three students there. Afterwords I talked with one of them and he started talking about his studies and his ideas about interweaving belief in religion and science and between religions...interesting.

The trip was about connecting with people and learning about Moroccans as people and so forth so they took us to see a slum which was a little awkward. We pulled up in our tourist bus thing to look...felt weird. o well.

When we returned to Rabat we went to Chellah which is an old Roman city that's all ruins and a lovely garden. So beautiful.
































We returned home for lunch because Friday, being THE religious day for Muslims is special and it is typical to make cous cous. So delicious. Heather brought two of her friends from school because they have an apartment and no one to make them cous cous...sad life. Cous cous is eaten from a communal bowl with spoons working your way from outside - in and is eaten with a weird sour milk drink that tastes like drinking sour cream. I tried it and drank some, but did not like it.

After lunch we met back up to go for a walk through the medinah/wherever our Moroccan guides wanted to take us. Camilia and I went with some girls from the other group and 2 guys and a girl guide. Esmat (i want to say this is how you spell it, but probably not) and Simo (Mohammed) talked to me a bit, but they liked talking to each other more and with Camilia in Arabic once they found out she was Tunisian.

Bought some hand-of-Fatima earings, got a date from a spice stall, tried to cocolate- almond fudge type treat of Simo's and went to a cafe-type place for apple soda. Decent afternoon. Fun to walk through the market.