Tweet My friend Laila from Rotterdam arrived in Morocco last Friday just as my neighbor Jess was having a henna party so Hanane, Jess, and Laila all got henna on their hands. The next eight days were like unpaid work for me, though there were some enjoyable moments too. Hanane and Laila eating chickpeas on [...]
Tweet Been busy lately….most of it should have been pleasant but wasn’t. I’ll update soon but I need a day or two to recover. Lots of nice pictures coming though. Tweet
Tweet The American Language Center in Fez has been renovating a riad in the medina for use as a study and cultural center. My neighbor Jess has been overseeing most of the work and this week hosted a party there on Wednesday night. As with most parties in Morocco, the absence of alcohol was noticeable [...]
Tweet This morning on my 45 minute taxi commute I was struck by something… First let me say this, Muslims pray facing towards Mecca. In Morocco that means facing East. What I noticed was that on the tops of every apartment and house in Morocco are satellite dishes and what struck me was that each [...]
Tweet I wrote a short piece on buying English Language books in Fez for my friend Jess over at Culture Vulture’s Fez recently. Here’s a peek, for the full story go to Read the rest at The Book Souq – Culture Vultures: If you’re looking for English Language books in Fez, there are really only [...]
Tweet I’ve always been a big fan of using whatever free resources present themselves to make what you need. Last night, I realized (yet again) that the biggest free resource in Morocco is garbage. At the moment, I don’t have a garden so composting (aside from tossing veggie scraps out my window) isn’t really an [...]
Tweet As it starts to get cold in Sefrou, I realize that one of the challenges of living here is figuring out what the hell to do with one’s self. I am writing a lot. I am also reading a fair amount both on my computer which I am getting used to (I downloaded about [...]
Tweet I woke up on al-Eid and the Oued Aggai was running red with the blood of all the sheep that had already been killed upstream and we had to get ready to go to Hanane’s parents place where I met her two older brothers for the first time. To my surprise, I liked them [...]
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