We have been pleasantly surprised at how friendly the people are in Morocco. Wherever we go we find people are interested in talking to us and practising their english or french. Ollie got chatting to a Moroccan guy on the plane over here and he offered to show us round his home town of Meknes. So when we arrived in Meknes a couple of days ago we sent him a message and not only did he show us round Meknes, he invited us back to his parents house to break fast with his family! It was very interesting to see how Moroccans live. His whole family (brothers, sisters, cousins, uncles and aunts) lived in the same 3-storey house. After sundown we ate with his family and then they showed us family wedding videos. These were interesting to begin with as Moroccan weddings are very different to english weddings (they last 6 or 7 hours and the bride wears all kinds of wonderfully ornate dresses) but got a bit tiresome after the 4th or 5th video!
We are now in Rabat and are all quite tired after being woken up at 4.30am by the call to prayer. Our hostel is next door to a mosque. Rabat is a lot less touristy than the places we visited before and is on the coast so is a bit cooler - maybe 30 degrees instead of 38). Tomorrow we are moving onto Casablanca where we will meet some friends of Mostapha (the guy we will be working for on our placement).
A bientot.
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