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I am getting a haircut today, and found some inspiration.
In other news, I fly to Morocco tomorrow.
Madness!

There is like, a billion things I could write now that I have been in Morocco for three days, and in Meknes for two. But I am still tired. Email me for specifics.
I guess it’s really only been two days, but I have slept three times. I woke up in Casablanca yesterday. I have […]

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All photos taken with my Treo, which is working now!!!
Common apartment maze (not mine, but nearby):

Looking at the city from a hill nearby last night:

Lady at Maroc Telecom helping a customer (not me):

Common street scene with random couch on the sidewalk:

Smurfy flea market:

Dinner in my apartment tonight. Take special notice of the Coca-Light!!! The almond […]

New Moroccan Photos
Page two of the album has some cool pictures of the city.
Second Album from 14Jan07
City shots and some grocery store shots. The grocery store is the expensive version, so I won’t be shopping there much as my language gets better. I took the pictures there for reference.
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This is my assignment for class later today. I had to write a sentence for each vocab word on page 25 of my little book. I just wrote it myself, and still can only read it very, very slowly. Arabic starts on the right and reads moving left, of course. Even the question […]

This guy from Slate explains why learning Arabic is so hard. A must read.
But the ferociously unfamiliar grammar sets us all adrift. Arabic is a VSO language, which means the verb usually comes before the subject and object. It has a dual number, so nouns and verbs must be learned in singular, dual, and […]

I have some more pictures.
On or around 20Jan2007.
The ketchup is for reference. The homework is because it was already in the folder I copied. The town scene is Meknes, and the souk (market).
I see that the album software put an ad on there at the top. [removed ad]
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New pictures of my trip to the mountains.

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I went to Rabat today, the capital city. We mostly spent time in the “MegaMall”. It was nice, but expensive. I went ice-skating, bowling, but most importantly, ate 2 triple cheeseburgers at a Quik and took home a large hamburger pizza from Pizza Hut. Almost took home two, but Pizza Hut has […]

I have a new gallery of pictures, with snow in Meknes (my city; second snow in 7 years; it’s COLD), me in Rabat ice skating and bowling, a small march by children for rain, and some more pictures from my trip to the mountains, including some of the best ones. The rain march by […]