Monthly Archives: December 2009

A holiday blur.

Posted on 31 December 2009 by Nicole

My apologies for not yet sharing my holiday travels and tales.  There’s been a lot of action here in the countryside including, but not limited to, the following: -electricity bills ranging from 11MAD to 250MAD; -flash floods; -discussions of how … Continue reading →

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Pre-Christmas Travels.

Posted on 22 December 2009 by Nicole

Blogging to: Vince Guaraldi Trio, A Charlie Brown Christmas — Note from the author: I know that I recently blogged about not wanting to be labeled “travel literature,” but sometimes we do indeed travel.  My timing was poor, but the … Continue reading →

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“Eid” is a full sentence.

Posted on 11 December 2009 by Nicole

Posting to: Pink Martini, Hang On Little Tomato I beg of you, Pink Martini: let’s never stop falling in love. – Eid al Adha, the Islamic holiday marking the end of the Hajj, was celebrated here in Morocco not too … Continue reading →

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This is why I don’t want to be labeled “travel literature.”

Posted on 9 December 2009 by Nicole

Blogging to:  What sounds like eight hundred screaming children outside of the school across from my apartment… even though I was told last night that today is the first day of a two-day national teacher’s strike.  Maybe the strike was … Continue reading →

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A quick Tashlheit lesson, courtesy of Host Brother.

Posted on 3 December 2009 by Nicole

The suffix -ngh, in my dialect of Tashlheit, is the first person, plural, possessive marker. To clarify: it means our. If tiggmi means ‘house’, tiggmingh means ‘our house’. If lbab means ‘door’, lbabngh means ‘our door’. Got it?  Let me … Continue reading →

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Change is… overwhelming.

Posted on 2 December 2009 by Nicole

I have had a personal computer equipped with the internet in my house and at my fingertips for eight days now.  Only today has the vertigo started to subside. After bouncing from public computer to public computer for nine months, … Continue reading →

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