Mo-Rock-On Day Out (get it)

September 11
Morocco Day 2

Hopefully by now you are all used to my Shakespearean style of writing. I forgot to mention that it was raining all day yesterday and was really humid. Also, while I was going through the medina yesterday, I tried some of their famous, sugary pastries and they were amazing. Also, whenever I am in port, I am not taking classes as is no one else on the ship.
I went to bed last night not knowing what I was going to do today. My only plan was to see if I could grab a spot on one of the field trips. If someone doesn’t show up to a field trip, people are chosen to take their spot (depending on how early you show up). So I showed up to a thing called “SOS: Children’s Village visit” and got added to the list. People didn’t show up so I was allowed to go. Honestly I didn’t care if it was good or not, I just wanted to be out in Morocco.
We left via small shuttle buses and drove out into the outlying area of the city. There are some slums outside of Casablanca. There were goats in random fields as well as stray dogs walking all over the place- it was very reminiscent of Mexico. Our first stop of two was not at all what I expected. It was a private school called George Washington Academy. I’ll be damned if there was ever a man named George Washington born in the middle-east. What I found out is it is a very Americanized school for kids from all over. This included, to my surprise, American kids, Canadians, French, as well as Moroccan and others. What they said was that a lot of the teachers enroll their kids, which is the reason why there were so many kids with American accents. We got a tour of the premises, which turned out to be an oasis in Morocco. They had cutting-edge Macs as well as a fully stocked library, a paved track and field, varied lunch menu, and quality staff.
We had lunch there in the cafeteria and left for the next school. The next one was nice as well bus definitely not as nice. This one was meant more for orphans but accepted kids fortunate to have parents. After a brief tour of their facilities, the kids were beginning to get home from school (I guess some of them lived on the premises). I’m pretty sure that everyone who signed up really wanted to interact and play with the kids. One kid brought out a soccer ball (sorry, football) and schooled a lot of us college kids. After watching the kids play, we left and got back around 5:00 ish. I debated whether to go to my Rabat trip tomorrow (which was only $35 and 4 hours long) and decided I really wanted to go to Marrakech. A lot of people are planning on going tomorrow and I am meeting a group tomorrow at 7:30 and am going to skip the Rabat trip (I’ve heard from multiple people that Marrakech is amazing).
And that’s about it for today- I know, it was a pretty limited day. Yet for some reason I am exhausted and its only 10:00pm. So no matter what, I’m going to make sure I’m experiencing Morocco tomorrow, be it Marrakech or if that fails Rabat. I’m going to take a train probably around 8:45 ish. Its weird that I have nothing else to write… So how’s everybody back at home?