Twenty Things

We’ll begin our final week of class tomorrow and be finished on Friday.  Lord willing, we will leave Fes by train Saturday morning for our next destination, which may not be as conducive to blogging as this one (mostly) was.

So, how about a quick list tonight?

1. Met with nice people again this morning.
2. Afterwards, we walked to the mall for coffee as has been our custom.
3. Ran into a nice family whom we saw earlier.
4. As Jim and the husband/father were chatting, his  2-year-old boy disappeared, as little boys do sometimes.
5. What ensued was a semi-frantic search by the parents, mall security folk, and us.  Little guy was found in about 5 minutes.  Praise the Lord.
6. Every morning after breakfast we go outside on the deck for a few minutes.  Usually we see Fes, car washers, storks (ibis?  to be determined), maybe a train.  Today was a first —

7. Came home and worked on memorizing conjugations of “i want to ___/you want to ___/he/she/they,we,you want to _____.

8. Our second purchase in the medina yesterday was minimal and began the same way:  “Come in to my shop.  You are welcome to just look.  I will not pressure you to buy.”

9. Yeah, right.

10. Ended up with two sugar bowls when I only wanted one, so one of you is getting a present.

11. Have I mentioned spineless shoppers before?

12. Paid a muleteer three dirhams for this.

13. That’s about 31 cents.

14.Petite taxis are convenient and cheap.  I’ll try to get a picture soon.

15. Oh, this is cool:  on Friday we chatted over couscous at school with a lady taking  classical Arabic lessons here. She’s married to a Moroccan and they live in Scotland with their baby boy.

16. We learned that she is a contributor to Fodor’s, and is house-sitting for the author of the book “A House in Fes.”

17. We bought the book and I’m reading it aloud to Jim.

18. It’s been cooler, in the 80’s.  We’ve turned the AC off a few times.

19. But, the temps are rising again.

20. Forecast is for 108 tomorrow.