04/15/2014

Johnna

Our day began at 10 am with 5 hours of Arabic class. We had 2 breaks in between where we ate an enormous amount of food. We had everything from Moroccan khobz (bread) and mint tea to couscous and vegetables. During class, we learned about family and ways to describe your family. Later on, we met up with our hosts and went on a scavenger hunt throughout the medina. My group consisted of me, Isabell, and our 2 hosts. We made it through the scavenger hunt fairly quickly and it was a lot of fun. We tried to use our Arabic as much as possible but it was tricky because in Morocco, Arabic is mixed in with French.  The trip through the medina was also different for me because I am blonde. I got a lot of looks, was called beautiful multiple times. After we completed the scavenger hunt, we had to take the tram back to Bridges international school. We got on the tram and relaxed until suddenly, our hosts ran up to the front of the tram to talk to the driver. Apparently, we got on the wrong tram and were headed in the opposite direction. It wasn’t too bad getting on a tram back, but we had to take 3 trams and got back almost an hour after the other groups. They felt so bad that we got candy for being so cooperative. Overall it was a short but very fun day.