l-Hamdullah!

WEEK TWO OF TRAINING- DONE AND DONE!

This week in school I learned how to count to 999,999, how to get things from the market, how to tell time, and some verbs. I'll be able to form a sentence in Darija in no time (hopefully)!

My village is pretty legit - everyone is so nice and its located near a river and the mountains are close by too. It can get pretty hot during the day though, my paleness can't handle the heat - and it's only spring lol

My village from a hill

I had a lot of fun cultural experiences this week: I got to watch Mr. Nice Guy with Jackie Chan dubbed in French, some henna on my hands for a wedding, hand washed my laundry, went to a market and bought some chicken - this counts as cultural because I saw the chicken die, went to one day of a three day wedding celebration - met the bride and I don't speak enough Darija to say anything to her but "good" so I just stared blankly at her lol awkward?, my host sister found a French radio station that only plays rihanna and david guetta (win), I made some chicken in a tagine, went to a Berber dance festival, and I ate a lot of awesome frites (FRENCH FRIES!!!!!). Overall good week!

 My henna!

I had some funny lost in translation moments this week: I asked my teacher what chapstick is in Darija but when I showed her what it was she thought it was glue. So all week I've been telling my host family that I like using glue on my lips because it is so dry here lol. I also thought I was going to get henna with my host sister (before I actually got it) and instead ended up in a field with her picking beans and mint. Then finally last night I thought we were going to another night of the wedding, but we went to a Berber folk music festival - which I thought was the wedding until I saw my teacher and she told me where we were.

YAYA! This weekend I'm hanging out in Ouarzazate and I'll post some more pictures soon :)