I have to say, it’s still a little odd to think “I’m married” or Hanane is my wife! It’s been 10 days now and I don’t know exactly what I expected from this thing called marriage, but what I’ve found is certainly better than whatever it was I thought marriage might be. It’s a little [...]
Married Vagobond!
At 12:12 PM, today, April 6th, Hanane and I were pronounced married! The process was a bummer, but today, we went to the court, asked the clerk about the file, he told us the judge had signed it, so we went to the registrar and got the file and permission slip. After this we went [...]
Marriage in Morocco – Turning heaven into hell.
While there are many things I love about Morocco, the bureaucracy is not one of them. As an oft cited example, the process of getting married. In 2009, when Hanane and I first became engaged, we looked at the list of requirements and literally cried because of the seeming impossibility. The initial list we were [...]
Movies at the Fez ALC – Pirates of the Caribbean and Harry Potter
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 are [...]
Movies at the ALC Fez- The Grapes of Wrath
I’ve been running the film club at the ALC Fez for a few months now and I thought I would write a little bit about the films that we’ve shown and the reaction to them from the Moroccan students who attended. The first film as previously discussed was Casablanca. http://www.vagobond.com/2010/01/casablanca-the-film-revisited/ For the next one, I [...]
Vagobond Visa Renewal Trip
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 a [...]
