One day in all the days

Okay, five days is a bit of a lull. It's mostly been spent getting used to my class schedule: loving my Islam and the West seminar, knocking my head against the brick wall of MSA, trying to keep up with darija. (I find myself understanding every 10th word spoken by my family or by people on the bus.)

I've also been getting my head around what it means to live in and explore Rabat. It has been incredibly frustrating to realize both the limitations of the city and the limitations of my mobility in it - i.e. don't go there alone, don't sit there alone, don't try to do this by yourself.

Good discoveries included the English language bookstore right in my neighborhood, and a second visit to the Kasbah when it was actually sunny and a pleasant temperature (there was a storm blowing in from the Atlantic, but who's counting?) Oh! And the roof of Amideast - the one place you can find sun on a weekday morning.

More to come, including some more pictures, inshallah. Also, according to my friend Laura, google lists this very blog as your first stop for Lolcats: Rabat, so stay tuned! I will not let you down.