Rockin the Kasbah

Thats right. I had a royal w/ cheese, aka a quarter pounder. For anyone who has ever seen pulp fiction you understand my excitement. The process of buying a fan last night last 3 hours. but we saved a total of 20 dollars on 3 fans. I pulled out the shame on your family line and he dropped the price a dollar per fan. The term when it rains it pours came from someone living in the desert. It rained yesterday and I thought we were caught in a 20 minute monsoon. The amazing thing is, 20 minutes later everything was bone dry. Right now the international sacred musical festival is going on so every hotel in fez is packed. Tickets are like 10 dollars or 20 dollars a night. With the most popular act being tomarrow night. I just found out that my entire group is going tomarrow night and its to late to buy tickets. Well I managed to score a front row ticket!! a guy in my class is the photographer and he got me one. Im pretty excited. Its a fancy affair! I actually get to dress up and show a little skin. Im wearing a knee length skirt… very scandelous 😉 Im trying to find things to talk about since the longer i am in here the further away walking the terrible stairs to my apartment is. Unfortunatly there seems to be nothing else remarkable that has happened to me.

I must be wearing a sign (the blonde hair is probably it) that says rip me off. I have been over charged for everything! I have even been bartering. For things I thought I got a good deal on and that I yelled the shop owners yelled, I walk away multiple times… the price is dropped by like half, I go home and tell my host family what i paid and its still like double the right price. I dont know what it will take. I did get a good price for my hand in marriage though. 4000 camels. Its probably going to be the amount they would pay for a street urchin but still 4000 camels seems like a large amount of camels. if anyone would like to call me from home I have a cell, the number is 073776864 i believe the country code is 221 and the city code is 5. if anyone trys and that doesnt work, let me know. I am about to try to add pictures to this post so if there are some, enjoy and remember I still have yet to really explore the city. These are mostly just sights on my walk home from school. Speaking of my walk, I probably walk easily 4-5 miles a day if I just go to school and come home. Not to mention the 6 flights of stairs to the apartment while the elevator is broken. Normally this wouldnt be horrible, but factor in 100 degree heat and the sun beating down on you the entire time. I drink water like it is going out of style. Its nothing for me to drink 3-4 bottles of water a day. Water at least is cheap. For the large bottles I drink 1.5 liters, its only 50 cents which is great with as much as I drink. at frirst I thought aleast I will loose weight, not with the way they force food on you here. Its part of the Moroccan hospitality to have us eat all of the time. Not only at meals do they continally tell me to eat, but they also serve me snacks where they set the whole table. Ok! I finally have pictures online. If anyone wants to see them here they are! http://www.pixagogo.com/8260165511

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