The flight from DC to Lisbon was delayed an hour, which means we were at the Dulles airport from about 5 pm to about 11 pm. The flight to Lisbon was 7 ish hours. It was late at night so after a little tv, I slept a lot of the flight. Even still, the seats were uncomfortable, and we landed in Portugal tired, groggy, and kind of gross.
In Lisbon, we got in the wrong line to transfer flights. Instead of going through a little extra security, many kids and one of the adults went through customs into Portugal. It all worked out in the end. We got to our gate and connected to wifi, so we were happy.
After 5 hours in Portugal we got in a plane to Casablanca. We were finally, actually going to Morocco. That flight was quick and easy compared to the one across the Atlantic. We got our passports stamped and finally made it to Morocco.
Being in America for so long, I forgot how fun and great it is to be surrounded by Arabic. Since it is Morocco, I am also surrounded by French. This is also really fun.
In Casablanca, the first night, we stayed in a hotel and ate dinner there. After we went to the Hassan II Mosque. It is like the third biggest mosque in the world. Some 250,000 people pray there every evening.
The next day we had a security briefing by an American Cultural Center. After that, we had an entrance Arabic Exam and left for our cities.
Leaving the kids going to Marrakech was hard because we got so close. I miss hem already.
Today was my first Darija class. Darija is the Moroccan dialect of Arabic, and it is so SO different than MSA. We also had some other cultural activities today.
That's been the beginning of my trip. Thanks for reading. I'll post again soon.
Learn something today.
Byeeee
Corie.
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