Update: P
Trip Start
Jul 06, 2008
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Trip End
Aug 06, 2008
Fes, Morocco
Saturday, October 11, 2008
Which is nice cos I've felt pretty grim for the last 10 days. My body seems to have gone into shock due to the ending of the fasting season of Ramadan and then the hectic schedule of Eid, the festival that comes immediately after. My Moroccan home-stay become home to various members of the extended family....including children...one of which took the opportunity to pee all over my host brother's clothes. According to my host brother he was told to do this by his mother (his brothers wife)......because she doesn't want them to visit them in Casablanca.....I thought this was quite unlikely but he insisted this was the case and when he is the only one in the family ho speaks English and he is my unpaid personal Arabic tutor I thought it wise to go along with him.
Also, the skies opened up here about 5 days ago and I was woken up at various times of the night with cracks of thunder that would make Zeus cry for his mammy. In Morocco houses don't tend to have roofs.....they have a kind of canope which prevents water coming in but which also lets the cold air in......it is also very noisy when it rains so that has made it difficult to sleep.
All of which has contributed to me feeling run down and cold and tired. Add to this the Arabic classes and the tons of homework and it's not surprising I was ill.
