Today was our last day of class. I walked to school in the morning for the last time. Though it has been cooler again recently, we all still end up showing up at ALIF with sweat stains in the shape of our backpacks after the 2.5 mile walk. Our Arabic final was supposed to be two hours but it only took an hour for most of us. I didn't think it was very challenging, and, if they are not too nitpicky about their grading, I think I should do well. After class, I tried to round up one last Casa Nostra group, but instead ended up going to McDonald's with Tash, Joe, and Meredith. Funny enough, we ran into Lla Mary Jean and Si Ron while we were there because they were checking out the wi-fi situation. Si Ron had a thesis defense at 10 pm that night and ALIF closed at 10, so he was going to Skype Hanover from McDonald's that night! Too funny!
I watched the season finale of Modern Family during the second half of lunch and then we had our final class with Prof. Sadiqi. Afterwards, I walked back to the medina with Elle and Marissa. Elle had lined up another meeting with the guide we had the second week, Hakim, to take us shopping around the medina. He took us to great carpet, scarf, and jellaba places. I got some good presents, but won't divulge any secrets here. We would have never found these places without him and he helped us haggle too. At the end, when we tried to pay him for taking us around, he wouldn't even accept the money! A super stand-up guy in my opinion, but I personally would've taken the dhirams. He must do pretty well because he told us he is working 9-5 all week and showed us some pictures he had from taking National Geographic around Morocco last week.
Afterwards, I went home and got to work on my papers. I made a big stab on my sports paper. During dinner, we watched this great show on Channel 2M that we often watch which is basically a Moroccan version of Candid Camera called Cameracash. In tonights episode, a man pretended to be blind and had a will from his recently deceased wealthy uncle. He would then ask people in a park to describe to him what was in the will, but the issue was that in order to get all the riches and livestock, he would have to get married. Once they finished reading him the will (and making funny noises to represent the animals he was getting), he would then try to convince them to marry him. I couldn't understand most of it, but comedy is one of those things that transcends borders and language barriers and the show was hilarious. The other half of it was a woman would sit at a table at a restaurant and order a big breakfast. When it would come, she would tell the person that she was going to put it all in a huge briefcase she brought with her in order to tell the waiter the meal had never come and that she wanted another. When the waiter would accuse her of fraud and open the briefcase, she would blame the other person at the table, claiming she didn't own the briefcase, and we would watch them freak out and try to worm their way out of the situation. The whole show was hilarious and at the end, each person who is tricked gets a gift. We had seen a couple episodes of this before where an actor puts another actor into a trance in front of someone and all this fake supernatural stuff around them, scaring the person watching. In another episode, an actor convinces people to come with him to dig up some treasure he found in a guy's backyard, claiming its his house, only for the homeowner, another actor, to come out and begin talking to the people. The show gets everyone in my family laughing!
Tomorrow, Driss is taking me to a pool in the morning. It should be a fun break during all the hecticness of finals period.
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