Tweet A few months ago I started looking at all the garbage piled up in various places and seeing that I had about a thousand plastic grocery bags lying around. YOu get plastic bags with everything in Morocco and then they go to the garbage and then they blow all over the place and then, [...]
Berkane Jokes
Tweet Lately, I’ve been encouraging students in my conversation classes to take a stab at telling their favorite Moroccan jokes in English. To my surprise, the most popular jokes are all about the people who live in the city of Berkane! They are called Berkany Jokes or Brekna jokes. The jokes are all at the [...]
Movies at the Fez ALC – Pirates of the Caribbean and Harry Potter
Tweet The movies I showed at the American Language Center in Fez during the last two weeks were far different than my first round of classic Academy Award Winners. I decided that since I was looking to spawn great conversations but that my audience was primarily Moroccan teens, I decided to address two issues that [...]
Movies at the Fez ALC – I’m Gonna Git You Sucka
Tweet A few weeks ago, I decided to show an absolutely terrible movie to the students at the ALC Fez. The movie I’m Gonna Git You Sucka is a parody of the black exploitation films of the 1970s. From the get go, this film had no chance to be good. There is something compelling about [...]
Bruce Lee in Morocco
Tweet As most of you know, I love couchsurfing! So what does couchsurfing have to do with Bruce Lee being in Morocco? Well, it’s simple. My last couchsurfer was a Canadian named Bruce Lee. Bruce contacted me through couchsurfing.com about a month ago and told me he would be taking a journey through Europe and [...]
Vagobond Valentines – Part 3 – Imperial Meknes
Tweet In the first two parts of this short series I wrote about our time in Moulay Idriss and at Volubulis, the ancient Roman city. Part 3 – Imperial Meknes will be the final chapter of this short odyssey. We were having a great time all weekend in Moulay Idriss and Volubulis but one subject [...]
