I came to school today and I had TWO packages in my mail box!!! Even my kids were excited for me!! They kept asking who the packages were from and if they were from America!!!! Thank you Bill and Julie!! What a treat from the USA!! All day other teachers were asking about my "mail"!.....can you tell we are all missing home?!
Well, no photos for you and not much time to write....mid-term progress reports are due the end of this week....tomorrow...so I need to do some grading and recording tonight. But, too much crazy stuff is happening lately, so I needed to jot a few of them down.
Questions I have had lately:
How does a huge cockroach end up on his back in the middle of my bedroom floor? He's just lying there waving his arms and legs asking for help......I'm thinking...."la!" (No! in Arabic!) and then I smash him!
Where would a guy take my car and then bring it back??????? Really, this happened tonight! Okay, so we shouldn't have trusted the guy enough to leave our keys with him.....he was going to move the car and wash it while we did our walk on the beach. Well, we finished our walk and they had moved the car so they could reach it with the hose and were still in the process of cleaning it. Sooooo we went back in to have a glass of wine and a bite to eat. We come out and NO car! The parking attendant was still there (thank goodness!), so Marcia started laying into him in French (remember, she does the talking....I do the driving!). He keeps telling her that the car is right there (I think he means is WILL be right there shortly) but it is NOT....so she keeps yelling at him. ( I am sooo proud of her and her language skills!) she starts looking through her purse and says she wants to talk to the police....this scares him and he is pleading...no! Then.....here comes our car.... The first guy is saying in Arabic to the guy that returns the car "Shame on you!"(hshuma).....so we KNOW that this should NOT have happened. So we continue to say, "Hshuma!", get into the car and start to check our things......no homework has been corrected and all seems to be in our backpacks as we left it.........Thanking God alllllllllll the way home! ....note to self....NEVER leave your keys with someone you don't really know in Morocco!!
French and Arabic classes are starting up next week....do I have enough energy and memory left at the end of Tues and Thurs to sign up for beginning French?? Marcia thinks I should sign up and she wants to try out the French service at church....thinks it will be good for me once I start to pick up some of the language.....she is probably right! I think I'll give it a try! :)
How many things do you think you might see crossing the road in Morocco? So far, we have seen:
men on donkey carts,
kids on bikes, roller blades, etc.
mothers with babies tied on their backs
cows, goats, dogs, cats, donkeys
wheel barrows - empty ones and ones filled with fruits and vegetables
Who would guess we would be paying for:
a home to live in (which we dearly love, by the way!!)
a car (a VERY strange car....the right front light keeps falling part way out, the right rear tire is bad, the doors only open if you have really strong muscles or if you shut the car off. Last night was the best....the landlord called and told us our lights were left on in the car. I was sure I had turned them off...but, put my pants and long shirt back on and headed out to see. Sure enough....the right front light was on....I opened the door and the switch was OFF.....I turned the car on, then off and the light went off......?????????????
a guard ( it's true! we pay the local guy that watches our little neighborhood corner about $12/mo to "keep an eye on things"!!)
a couple cleaning ladies that come whenever they feel like it! (actually I LOVE when they come...they do a GREAT job of cleaning and make us a wonderful meal)....but.....they were suppose to come on Monday and ended up finally showing up on Thursday this week! (Twice I had taken the sheets off my bed to have them washed....we had just given up and then this am we are leaving the building and there they are!!) :)
Wondering when I might get a pin # for my bank account??? I got the lovely debit card two weeks ago, had automatic deposit today, but still no pin # to be able to access the account! I went again to HR to ask about this situation and they again told me....it will arrive in 2 -3 weeks! I asked how I am suppose to get money in the mean time. She tells me I can go to the bank with my passport and fill out paper work and they will give me cash. Okay, I say....Then I ask what their hours are and she says...................9 -2:30!!!! I tell her I work!! She suggests I take an hour off over my prep period.....this would take MUCH longer than an hour, but I shrug and leave her office with my head hanging low!!
Long story short......EVERY day here is interesting, hard, challenging, frustrating, crazy, funny and ....a gift from God! :)
Love you all! Miss you all! Thanks for the prayers, the emails, the notes, the letters and the packages!!!!
xo Jill
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