تشلسي في المغرب: All cultures are equally stupid and equally smart

Hello all from المغرب (Morocco),
note: I will include random arabic words so you can all learn with me.

So I have so much to tell that I'm gonna try to separate it into two sections, fun short stuff and all the cool things I'm learning about the culture (this section will prolly be long). So check the top for quick updates.

Fun Stuff:
Olives here are AWESOME. I have all my life hated them, but they are SOOOOOO good here. Prayers at 4:30 in the morning, definitely wake you up. People talk REALLY fast. If you are a Moroccan woman in a bar you are a prostitute. The plane did all three languages, so it started with Arabic then French then English. So I'd catch like one word in Arabic, multiple words in French, then all the stuff I thought I had understood largely different in English. Thus, we'll see how the whole speaking the language thing goes. Also, the place where we take classes is awesome:

The food is SOOOO good. Expect me to come back very fat. :)

(From left to right is meat tangine style, slow cooked with spices and such, then carrots and olives, above that is apples with cinnamon, and to the left beet salad. YUM)

Also, harassment is apparantly the way many guys meet women here.....who would have thought. As my arabic teacher said: "you call it stalking, we call it courting." OH, and, despite my attempts to dress modestly, I will forever stick out (kinda saw this coming). Although when we don't walk around in big groups I do get spoken to in French. WOOT!

Interesting Stuff:
Menstrating women are the most unclean people in all of Islam.....don't know how I feel about this, they're considered so unclean that they are not allowed to cleanse themselves with Ramadan and have to make up the days later.

People aren't supposed to hit on women during the day in Ramadan, so women specifically go out at night to get hit on. Apparantely normally women go to mosques to meet husbands, same deal with the harassment. And a Hijab won't stop the harrasment it will just make it "more polite." So instead of childish pick-up lines it's something along the lines of: "be my wife."

Here's just pictures of the hotel room and the view from on top of our school building.