one day in Rabat

I woke up today and took a shower. Then I left home and went to buy some food for breakfast. I went to the same shop as usually, said “salaam aleykum” (“hello” in Arabic) and the lady smiled seeing me and hearing that. It’s funny because we have sort of connection although she even doesn’t speak French. I said “shoukran” (thank you) and went to another shop to buy my favorite avocado yoghurt. There was a guy sitting and eating something so I said “bshaa” (bon appetit). The shopkeeper heard that and was kind of surprised. Of course as always he was very nice. And so were other people that I passed on the street even though sometimes they were starring at me with curiosity (probably seeing a foreigner in this homogeneously Moroccan neighborhood).

I went to my office and met some Moroccan friends. This weekend I am going to Marrakesh where I will have some clubbing, drinking, swimming in the pool and having great time with my Moroccan friends and other expats (friends as well). Before I arrived in Morocco I had never expected this kind of wild parties that I would have here. Clubs are really amazing here. Parties are crazier than anything I ever experienced in Poland…

There is more exciting things. There are normal and boring things as well. There are things you will not be able to find elsewhere and there are things that you will find everywhere. In this case (the uniqueness and lack of uniqueness of Morocco) it’s just like any country in the world which is unique and ordinary at the same time.

And for your information – if you wonder what is the purpose of this post I’m telling you this right now. I hope after reading it now you will be more aware that Morocco is just a country like others. And especially when you compare it with what you can hear in the news in media nowadays – those pieces of news that only say about terrorists’ attacks or terrorists and link them with Muslim countries. I don’t deny it but what I want to say is that Muslim countries has much more faces than the terrorist one. I’ve been discovering a lot of these faces for the past almost 9 months. And believe me! Some of them are fabulous!