Señorita Suarez en Sevilla: March 2011

This past weekend, our program director gave us the opportunity to travel to Morocco with all expenses paid including hotel and food. Everybody in our program took full advantage of this, since it was basically free - but this was not the experience we thought it would be. Before the trip, I was so excited to go to the market places and buy fresh spices and cute shoes like in Sex in the City 2 - the movie. Instead, there were far more interesting things I experienced other than shopping. Here's a brief list of what I did/saw.

*A lot of cafe's.... filled with only men.
*A pastry shop.... filled with moscas surrounding the pastries. It was the first time I resisted a pasteleria.
*I rode a camel.
*Moroccan students... we met students in both Tanger and Chefchaouen
*A Morrocan school of tourism... This college was dedicated solely for tourism purposes. They did supply us with PLENTY of pastries and delicious tea which we all took advantage of.
*Blue houses... more blue houses.... and more blue houses. EVERYWHERE in Chefchaoen.
*A Moroccan high school
*English skit played by Moroccan students... they acted out different roles in a shopping mall.
*A REAL Moroccan house.... Saturday afternoon my roomate and I went to the house of one of the high school students... her mom prepared us delicious Cous Cous while we watched Grey's Anatomy... with Arabic subtitles!
*A basketball game... between the Moroccan high school basketball team and our Teaching Development group - that was a surprise in the itinerary!
*Lots of animals... mostly chickens, cats, camel, sheep.... while hiking up a mountain to the high school.
*Real Moroccan music performed by three band members..
*Belly dancing... a local student in Tanger gladly showed us her belly dancing moves while we had tea.
*100 people throwing up on a ferry ride back to Tarifa (Where we catch the ferry to go to Morocco). Good times.