Rock the Casbah

First, I wanted to give a shout out to the Childs. It turns out that you guys should move to Morocco. It's an entire country that runs on Child time. 

Last weekend I took a school trip up to Chefchaouen and Tangier. Chefchaoen is one of the most amazing places I have ever seen. It is a city built in the Northern mountains of Morocco and the entire thing is painted blue. We had an amazing guide who showed us around the city and had dinner on a roof top. There were 14 students who ended up going (and I was the only guy). The dinner cost about $120 for all 14 of us, it was three courses and amazing. I bought Annie a birthday gift (its only a month late right now). On Sunday ate a large breakfast of bread and egg and then drove about two hours through some mountain roads to Tangier. The entire time I was thinking, "Annie would have puked all over the place."    

Tangier was okay. I saw the Mediterranean for the first time and really wanted to go sailing but had to settle for walking in the water across a beach. We had some pretty good seafood at a restaurant on the beach, I split some Marlin (I think) with one of the girls. After, we went to the Medina with a guide the school had arranged.  He was pretty awful. I'm pretty sure that he was telling the street vendors what language to speak to us in and then sending them after us. After the group got fed up with him he stopped guiding us around and at one point just left us in the middle of a Medina. 

Today the school took a group of us to the Casbah in Rabat which was nice (and also blue). I made some pasta for dinner and now I'm off to review my vocab sheet. 

Masa Salaama,

-Ben

Chefchaouen

The laundrymat in Chefchaouen

It was like walking through a glacier

Our blue hotel

View from the Hotel roof

The Med with Moroccan Mint Tea

Casbah in Tangier

Casbah in Rabat

Ben and the Atlantic Ocean

New friend Sam (she went to school at Lewis and Clark)