Going Places and Doing... Stuff :)

*Chirp chirp chirp*

I know, I know...  Things have been a bit busy around here and I’ve been taking a lot of me/resting time hence my absence.  I’m working on getting back on the regular post path once again.   Please bare with me. It has been a while but throw me a bone!  I’m new to this and I AM going to school.

Nevertheless, I will apologize to you my very few (for now) but dedicated readers for my absence. It’s been what? A month?  Yikes! Not a good look :/.  I’m here now and will try to be more present from now on… It was going pretty good in the beginning. Never fear, I haven’t forsaken thee my poor blog.  Anyway, down to the business already…

I can finally take my winter coat down from the rack and nothing pleases me more!  It’s heating up pretty quickly here in Morocco and although I am most grateful for the “almost like home” weather, it is quite a bitter sweet moment.  Not only because I’ll miss wearing my ultra cute and versatile coat but also because this mad-man heat means that we’re slowly but surely coming up to the summer months. 

Why?  Who isn’t excited about SUMMER???? Me… That’s who!  Well to be honest, I am a little excited but I am also sad because I won’t be going home as I had mentioned before *tears*.  You must be thinking "boo hoo! look at this girl complaining about spending her Summer vacation in Africa!"  I know that tons of people would kill to get to enjoy the months of “teacher/student” bliss in as exotic a country as Morocco but I miss mi family and mi dogs :(. Did I also mention that ALL my friends were looking forward to seeing me and I them?  Talk about a double whammy.  But I’m not done just yet… My girlies here will be going off to the US and… yes… home L… while I'll be here, more or less alone.

Anyway, I try not to dwell on the negatives and I’m going into this with an open mind.  To get myself ready for what is to come, I’m planning to implement a “To-Do” list to keep myself occupied while I’m all lonely and stuff.  Numero un sur cette list… sorry… At the top of this list is making friends.  

How old am I right?  I honestly haven’t been making an effort to make friends (I can be pretty lazy when it comes to this but ironically, I like meeting new people.  I swear, it’s on all my personality profiles :P).

I have met two pretty cool locals recently and I’ve been hanging out with one of the two for a few weeks now.  I won’t say it’s a boy but that doesn’t matter.  They seem pretty cool for now (I hope they are) and I’ve been getting the rundown on the places to visit and what not so I hope that will help with my to do list. 

So the title of this post has something to do with doing things and going places non?  Well, here are some pics of what I’ve been doing/ where I’ve been going lately.  I’ve been trying to revive my former spontaneous self and it’s been working out for the most part.  My roommate and I went to this “Cirque de Soleil” type thing here last weekend.  We were just passing by the French Institute in Rabat (where we live) and we saw the poster up.  I have always wanted to see Cirque de Soleil so I kinda jumped on the opportunity… the tickets weren’t too steep so that made it even better.  We didn’t get many pics from that because they didn’t come out very well (all the movement).  It was pretty amazing for me and I can’t wait to see the REAL deal. Not saying it wasn’t real but you get the picture right?  There were tons of kids there and we were pretty much the best dressed ones there (i.e. we were too too too dressed up) but I had a great time… I may have said this before :p.

Happy Reading and stay tuned for the posts to come

Den

Hassan Tower & Mausoleum (Rabat, Morocco)

Curtis and Onica being all "tourist-y"

I need to learn to do less awkward things with my feet 

Don't ask :s

This guy is reading...

... to this guy... I know it's creepy but I just had to... I mean look at all that marble :O

BEAUTIFUL!!!!! 

 

Scared???

So this random girl walks up to us and asks to take a pic with us... for some reason I'm slouching in every single one of the pics... ugh

How mature is he :P

Trying a feminine, cutsie thing here..

...yup! I'm seen in public with these people

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Chella 

So we get to Chella and it's a beautiful Roman ruin site/ botanical garden... SOMEBODY (Onica) didn't have enough battery life so we missed out on some pretty nice pics but I shall return again... with a charged camera :)...  I need to invest in one of those...