Tuesday etc.

Tuesday was a good day. We did not have a lot of class, and the required module was about the news and media- very informative & engaging. After the module, we went to get a cake ball (my obsession of the week). It is not like the cake balls that you would expect… it is almost like a soft butterfinger in cake form, and less peanutbuttery. SO good and only one dirham. My relationship with the bakery woman has really blossomed, and we are definitely friends now.

After pastry-time, Megan, Sara, and Josh were going to meet with a Foreign Service Officer (FSO), and I decided to do it too- for no particular reason, but I was not disappointed. His name was Sam, and he was a total New Yorker. He was very short and wore shoe lifts. It was great. He was very smart and a little abrasive- in a good way. He got his masters in library resources (he was a librarian) and was in Fes for the Peace Corps. He gave a lot of background information about himself and the State Department. A lot of it was interesting, but we also knew a lot of it already. (We were at a café btw). He told us about things that he does as a cultural liaison (idk what his position is exactly…). He definitely is a sports fan because a lot of the things that he was mentioning had to do with youth and sports (cool). Some basketball initiatives , but the most recent one had to do with women’s soccer (hi Nicki & COCOWOSOOOO). We spoke with him for more than two hours—time flew by. We walked him back to his car, and spoke for probably 20 more minutes next to his car. We got his contact information and I e-mailed him later in the week asking for any help with finding an internship or with my independent study project. He was very friendly in his response, but there are little connections that he can make because of the limitations that the state department puts on non-state department participation in their activities (reasonable, but annoying).

The rest of the week went by quickly- I don’t really remember anything specific from Wednesday or Thursday. EXCEPT that Simo came home on Thursday. Great for a number of reasons, BUT not great because I had to study for my Arabic final. We didn’t eat dinner until close to midnight (a record late) and I kinda had a solo toddler-ish freak-out. Very hungry and nervous and tired. I stayed up to eat, which proved to be the right decision because dinner was deeeelish (salad and kefta). Once I was fed, I went to bed and woke up early to study some more....