Dar-Sultan

makes a type of juice 

for picking your teeth

floss

for stomach aches  

for stomach aches, I think

black soap

for your skin - a type of soap, I believe

Dar-Sultan is very magical. Especially the spice market. There are rows upon rows of men selling argan oil, amlou, rose, five varieties of dates dates, nuts . . . you name it. There are also vendors with hedgehog hides and dried chameleons. All of it seems so untouchable, just because I have no idea what it is for, or how to go about using it. However, when Wahlid accompanied Alex and I, I was able to bug him a bit to give me descriptions of the objects. They became so much more real to me thereafter. 

Last days with Moroccan food

My last piece of tasty m'smmen with cheese and honey. Oh how I will miss this daily tradition.

Boucher lights in the medina 

Our ftour (first meal of the day at 7:30pm during Ramadan) dinner. Tastes: tajine, pastries, m'smmen, Moroccan pancakes, melon, nectarine, salad, bread, fried vermicelli triangles, tea, coffeee . . .

Cactus. Taste: seedy flowers 

Home-made couscous. Best tastes: chicken organs 

Tongue Twisters

Vegetable Lasagna. Last-last weekend's Moroccan meal by Alex and Maxene

I took pictures for possible inspiration for my ceramics class next semester.

A water clock in Fes. They could tell the time from where the water fell. 

Today was our last day of teaching. Since last Monday, we've been teaching most days from 10 to 1pm. We have new kids everyday, at different English levels (though all beginner), and hardly any materials. Sometimes white paper and mix-matched pens, though always a white board with a marker and eraser. These three hours have been exhausting, although gratifying, but we welcomed its end nonetheless.

I was paired with Wade. We tried to mix a lot of fun activities in with our lectures - Bingo, Simon Says - all big hits. We generally end the day with a few tongue twisters as well:

Who washed Washington's white wooly underwear when Washington's washer woman went west


The three thumbed thatcher 


Percy pig is plump and pink. I like a plump pink pig I think


Red leather, yellow leather (now three times fast)