Peut-être je dois écrire en français maintenant que vais partir. Comme ça vous auriez tous besoin ou d'apprendre quelquechose, ou de me comprendre a travers des traducteurs automatiques affreux. Bon, ils s'améliorent chaque jour, mais il y a tant de tournures qui paraissent similaires mais en fait ont des significations tout a fait différents!
I'll be flying out May 24th, super early in the morning. Then off to Newark, then Lisbon, Portugal, where I'll spend a day before flying to Casablanca and taking a train to my final destination of Fes. I'm doing the long layover in Portugal because the shortest it could have been was 12 hours. I mean, 12 hours??? What's wrong with you people!? Luckily, it's the same cost to make it a 30 hour layover and get to leave the airport and see something of the city.
That puts me in Fes on the 26th. I'll go to the school the next day to find out what host family I'll be living with. I'm excited, but a little wary. Apparently, some of the host families live in the old medina. Which is (according to Lonely Planet) the most intact Ancient Medina of the Arab world. (side note: do people say Anglophone world? Probably...) Intact to the point of possibly not having hot running water in the building. And not having drinkable water from the tap. Though in Tunisia the tap water wasn't drinkable in the fancy brand-new apartment I lived in, so that one doesn't surprise me. Now watch, with all of this being concerned I'll end up in an apartment in the Ville Nouvelle that may as well be in France. Like this one, other than the bathroom: http://www.louervendreaumaroc.com/appartement-a-louer-fes-42051.html
No matter what, it will be an adventure! And I promise not to write 'clinical' this time, Tine, so just tell me if I do.
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I didn't know you were going to be staying with a host family. That is cool. And will freak out your little sister less than couch surfing like you did last trip.
ReplyDeleteIt freaked her out? She never told me that.
ReplyDeleteLe stole the first two sentences of my comment!
ReplyDeleteI was clueless on that last sentence myself ;-}
So you will be shouting Hooray for JE's graduation from across the globe, cool!! 26 more days Beki, just 26. They aren't even all school days either! We survived Prom this weekend, which only people in Utah/Idaho can truly understand - but I am HERE to comment on Beki's amazing summer adventure. Great call on the layover, take lots of pictures, eh? I hope you get a nice host family...seems strange since you are a grown up but makes good sense considering you are going there to learn the language and this saves the time that would be spent getting to know someone well enuf for them to get serious about teaching you. These folks presumably volunteered to take in people like you to teach ;-}
smile and nod, it makes sense in my head xoxoxox