in Rabat

Hello!  This is the first time I’ve had a few minutes (and just a few) to type something.  I’m on a French keyboard, so please forgive typos.  After a 27-hour delay at JFK, we arrived in Rabat around 4:00 PM on Monday.  After some rest, we went to an amazing welcome dinner at MACECE.  It consisted of 3 courses of meal and 3 courses of dessert.  I’m not joking.   In the time since, we’ve had four lectures on Morocco and taken 8 hours of Darija (Moroccan Arabic) Language classes.  Needless to say, the meals have continued to be more than enough, so my body and brain feel near explosion.  BUT, I’m loving it here.  I sat in the hotel courtyard last night and practiced my Arabic script to the sound of a lute and doumbek while watching a soccer game.  Oh, crud.  There’s the bus!  Later!