Today is the third day that we have been in Rabat, and it is wonderful! They call it the green city of Morocco, and I certainly see why. Our host family is very kind and helpful to us, they know a good amount of English, and would like for us to be fluent in Arabic by the time that they leave! Yesterday was our first day of classes in the darija dialect, we will start fusHa' next week. All class is la inglesia, or no English, and very intense. I am doing a good amount of studying so that I will really learn the language. We also got to meet a lot of Moroccans at an event put on by our Arabic school, which was very interesting and showed us a lot about their culture.
Today we worked on more darija, more intensely than before. Raja, our teacher, kept having to get on Mobasshir and CJ because they were dasr (disobedient....haha love you guys) After we went on a scavenger hunt throughout Rabat! Our team came in last...that's because we had to buy a Quran and a traditional robe, well worth losing! We traveled with the same Moroccans that we met yesterday, and I was able to have a nice conversation with the taxi driver in Arabic. All in all very exciting. I would write more, but it is very late and I am very tired. More will come!
Today we worked on more darija, more intensely than before. Raja, our teacher, kept having to get on Mobasshir and CJ because they were dasr (disobedient....haha love you guys) After we went on a scavenger hunt throughout Rabat! Our team came in last...that's because we had to buy a Quran and a traditional robe, well worth losing! We traveled with the same Moroccans that we met yesterday, and I was able to have a nice conversation with the taxi driver in Arabic. All in all very exciting. I would write more, but it is very late and I am very tired. More will come!
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