Sooo-Today we left from Spain and took a ferry across to Morocco(after a 3 hour delay due to bad weather) A long day with a lot of traveling. Bus, waiting, ferry, waiting, bus, bus bus...Highlight of the day is most definatly riding camels on the beach-pretty epic. Other than that we spent time in Asilah walking around and checking out the murals that are painted on the walls all over the city. Apparently famous artists come every year and paint new murals and then the next year everything is white washed and new murals are painted. Got offered hash at least 5 times while we were there. haha. Really nice to see how people interact with each other in this society. Everyone is very reserved and couples dont even hold hands really, very different from being in haiti or ghana or nicaragua.
It is a lot more wealthy here (relatively speaking) compared to haiti for example. I was expecting more poverty but the house we are staying at now has wifi and a tv. I think that was the biggest shock to me so far. We also got a chance to talk to a couple students when we ate lunch/dinner which was awesome, getting to talk to someone our age was a great way to better understand the people...I am excited to do more of this because I have really felt like I got rid of some stero-types I had toward Islamic people.
Staying at a house in Rabat with a family now. Had dinner with a couple other American's staying here from Penn State and noooow I am ready for bed. wo-woo.
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