O Beloveds. Morocco was beautiful to me, and oh what dumb luck I have. Got out before the violence struck up, got out without diseases or debts or death, and all without knowing Al Qaeda had a morrocan branch, or that a I wasn't supposed to drink the water. We did it all wrong, and it all worked out fine:
planned the day before, traveled a lot of space in very little time, depended on the kindness of strangers, traveled with them, bought food from the street and the street markets, drank straight from the tap, wore bathing suits on the beach (as opposed to yards and yards of fabric, as the women who truly live there did) and splashed in the freezing brilliant cold. There are so many stories from that wee week we had, of kindness and bribery and sugary mint tea, but I'm not up to writing it all at once. The pictures I've put here: http://parasolparagua.shutterfly.com/action/as well as those from the Erasmus trip to Barcelona. My Moroccan travel companions were Lizzy, Chase from Reed who writes, ha, a terribly nice British artist named Sam, Mohammad who studied english lit and is a waiter, much like I will be, Rashid whose hospitality we relied greatly on, Nassima who sat by me on the bus and doodled in my sketchbook [neither spanish nor english were among the several languages she spoke), and a Chilean ex-banker named Nicolas in a fabulous striped shirt.
Ta da! More stories later.
2 comments:
The bus station photo is just wonderful, and wonderfuller still, the label above it to tell the readers what we see, besides all that we seeanyway. The cloaked figures below are Lizzie with bright eyes and...Chase who writes at reed? Is that correct? love this entry honey, thank you. love, mum-the-anonymous
mama! didn't you look at my other pictures? chase is the happy blonde kid, pictured on shutterfly rather than here. the guy in the hood is like 70 years old and named Mohammad. he's the stranger we followed in Tangiers.
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