Thursday
English class was rather hectic since, once again, we had no class room to call home. I think the whole class migrated up and down the stairs from the very top floor to the basement level about 4 or 5 times before someone finally just unlocked the Cafe and let us set up shop in there again. I told my students that perhaps they just wanted us to get some exercise before class to get the blood pumping in our brains... I doubt they understood exactly what I said, but a few of them laughed so it may have made SOME sense. I was then upgraded to a white board WITHOUT permanent marker on it! Yeehaw! (oh the little things in life..) Class was very small that day since most of them were in another class (l'Informatique or Francais). This made it much easier for the class since there were a few new people that needed to be caught up a little bit. Not a bad day at all :)
When I got back to the house I crawled in my bed and passed out for a few hours since I was finally feeling the beginnings of some kind of illness. The whole house has been sick the past 3 weeks and I've escaped it this long so I didn't want to feel left out or anything........ grrr. It was a nice nap, and Jean gave me some Olbas Oil which opens up your sinuses and throat. It's very nice actually and it helped me sleep along with a pile of tissues and a big bottle of water of course. After a good amount of rest, Ashley and I went down the street to a local spa to get pedicures. It was super cheap there and the girl was really good and very detailed in her work so that was nice. Then we lounged around the common room of the house and I worked on lesson plans and school stuff for a while until Khadija came and gave us henna tattoos. She does very beautiful, intricate designs and she does them super fast too! She said she started practicing when she was about 15. I pictured her as a little girl at a sleepover practicing henna with all her friends lol... so cute :D
Later, the gang (Ashley, Carley, Kim, Jason, Jordan, George, and moi) went down to the Mahaj Riad to check out the sushi restaurant that we'd heard raving reviews about (sushi? in morocco?). Since I had no desire to partake in digesting such slimy-ness, I opted for a delicious banana crepe with green tea ice cream (it had some fancy name that I can't remember, but that's basically what it was). Our waiter was super sweet too because when we asked him to take our picture, he even climbed behind a planter box and poked the camera through it's plants in order to take a good picture of us all. After eating, we went across the street to our favorite Tapas restaurant for Sangria and Mojitos (Yummy!) When we got back, I took my sick self to bed early and the rest of them smoked hookah (I dislike being responsible sometimes :P)
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