Can I Help You With That?
Now that I'm about as settled as can be (and without gushing, having an absolutely amazing time here in so many different ways), I thought I'd talk a little bit more about my initial reactions to Morocco.
Firstly, my reactions were pretty much grouped into three categories:
The first was," Oh, that's reallly amazing/exotic/different (in a good way). The second was, "jesus christ! Is that guy really trying to cross a six-lane highway with his 3 year old son!" Otherwise known as the "I can't believe they just did that" reaction. The third type was more of a humorous reaction, either at the sheer ridiculousness of what was happening, or the perceived humor of the situation.
For example, with the third one, it's common here in Morocco to see people carrying duffel bags or beach bags around. However, this is not a one-person job, in Morocco, it's one person, one handle. It's pretty normal to see people walking down the street, carrying a duffel between them, or even shopping bags and smaller things.
For another example, liquor in Morocco is really only supposed to be sold to foreigners, but in practice, there will typically be large number of moroccans in the liquor section of our local supermarche. For example, we were making some Gin and Tonics at the apartment last saturday night. Having quickly ran out of Gin, Gabe foudn himself making a run back to the supermarche. At the supermarket, he encountered literally a swarm of inexperienced Moroccans in the liquor section. While Gabe went in to buy one bottle of Gin, two different Moroccans managed to drop two bottles of wine on the ground at separate times, leaving shattered glass and wine all over the floor... this only added to the chaos (as people really don't like to hang out in a liquor store in the first place here), as people rushed for the exit. So... for us Americans, it seemed pretty damn funny (maybe you had to be there) to see all of these crazy, inexperienced Moroccans swarming a liquor store on saturday night, knocking over bottles and freaking out.
Firstly, my reactions were pretty much grouped into three categories:
The first was," Oh, that's reallly amazing/exotic/different (in a good way). The second was, "jesus christ! Is that guy really trying to cross a six-lane highway with his 3 year old son!" Otherwise known as the "I can't believe they just did that" reaction. The third type was more of a humorous reaction, either at the sheer ridiculousness of what was happening, or the perceived humor of the situation.
For example, with the third one, it's common here in Morocco to see people carrying duffel bags or beach bags around. However, this is not a one-person job, in Morocco, it's one person, one handle. It's pretty normal to see people walking down the street, carrying a duffel between them, or even shopping bags and smaller things.
For another example, liquor in Morocco is really only supposed to be sold to foreigners, but in practice, there will typically be large number of moroccans in the liquor section of our local supermarche. For example, we were making some Gin and Tonics at the apartment last saturday night. Having quickly ran out of Gin, Gabe foudn himself making a run back to the supermarche. At the supermarket, he encountered literally a swarm of inexperienced Moroccans in the liquor section. While Gabe went in to buy one bottle of Gin, two different Moroccans managed to drop two bottles of wine on the ground at separate times, leaving shattered glass and wine all over the floor... this only added to the chaos (as people really don't like to hang out in a liquor store in the first place here), as people rushed for the exit. So... for us Americans, it seemed pretty damn funny (maybe you had to be there) to see all of these crazy, inexperienced Moroccans swarming a liquor store on saturday night, knocking over bottles and freaking out.
posted by Isaac at 5:20 AM
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