Hello Hello!! So I am sitting in Hotel Majestic in Rabat, my home for the past two and half days and the next two. It feels so weird being here, I don't think it's really set in yet.
I am sharing a very small hot room with two other girls on my program, who are both very nice. Our bathroom has a nice squatting toilet that is also the shower...it's lovely, though not as bad as I first thought it would be.
So we've slowly been having orientationy stuff, which is basically just them talking to us for long stretches of time. It's Ramadan here so everything is kinda slow during the day and gets bumping again around 9 at night, which apparently is going to change dramatically once ramadan is over.
Today they dropped us off by ourselves in the middle of the city, and after momentary panic I relaxed and quickly found my way back to the medina (old part of the city where our cultural learning center is) Since I found my way back so easily I decided to wander around inside of the medina, which is basically a maze, where I did get a little lost but found my way back eventually.
Our other task today was to walk around and bargain in the market in the medina....I walked around with my roommates and we weren't too successful....it was slightly intimidating trying to pronounce the few Arabic words they taught us and asking people to lower their prices for us.
Alot of people speak french, and it's everyone which is cool and hopefully my french will improve but as of now my default foreign language is spanish which so far no one knows so when i speak a combination of spanish French and english people have trouble understanding me
I'm sharing an internet usb modem with my roommate and I've been hogging it so that's all for now!!
