Today was the best day of finals I have ever had. I woke up at 9 and did some work until 10, when Elle and Marissa came over. At this point, Driss, his two friends, and the three of us went to Batha to get cabs to go to the pool. Squished with the driver into a 5 person car, we drove across Fes to a vacation spot called the Diamant Vert. They had a huge pool, big grassy areas, a river with swan boats, and most importantly 8 water slides! It only cost 60 dh to get in ($7) and we had access for the whole day. There was a big patio with a dj on it and Driss told us there are concerts there every night.
The composition of the visitors was interesting because it was all 14 to 23 year old Moroccan men. There were probably about 120 men and only 10 women in the whole place. There were no parents present either. It was the ultimate teenage paradise with the big lawns around the pool, the music, and the water. Elle and Marissa stuck out more than I did with their blonde hair and female figures. This didn't stop us though from going on every water slide in the park. Marissa had never been on a water slide before so it was an eye-opening experience for her! She didn't really like them, but I think she just needs to give them some more time. Elle and I had a blast though. The highlight was either a big white slide that finished with a bowl at the bottom where you "toilet-bowl" around and then fall out the bottom of it or another slide where it was only like a 10 ft long slide and then a 12 ft drop straight down into a big pool. The cool water felt so good and we had a good time swimming and relaxing in the sun. We also met Driss' girlfriend who was very pretty. I don't know if his family knows about her though, so we'll keep that a secret.
The three of us left Driss and his friends at the pool and came home at 2. For lunch, Lla Fatima had prepared two tagines: chicken with cauliflower and chicken with carrots, and for dessert we had honeydew on the rind. Everything was tasty.
Afterwards, I got some work done on my papers and did a bunch of research. At 5, I went to the riad to watch The Descendants with Elle and Marissa. It's a George Clooney movie that came out last year about a lawyer in Hawaii who reconnects with his two teenage daughters after his wife gets into a power boating accident and is in a coma. It was an incredible movie and both he and the girl who plays his 17 year-old daughter do a great job.
I spent the rest of the night working on my papers and went to bed by 1. Today definitely felt like summer and I'm excited to be finishing up with work over the next couple of days. Enjoy this super-summery song by a teen from Miami who is the son of my uncle's friend. This acoustic-ish reggae-ish cover of Foster The People's "Pumped-Up Kicks" just embodied the feel of today so well.
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