This is Doris writing: The semester in Ifrane has started, the campus is buzzing with students, in the summer you see the starkest contrast, miniskirts, tanktop-clad girls holding hands with veiled young women. There is a large number of foreign students this semester as study abroad programs in Egypt had to be cancelled and those students have been diverted to peaceful Morocco. Mike is busy embarking on his new career as a university lecturer, thus far he has been assigned a lot of classes but has yet to see his contract, get a computer and a phone on his spartan desk which is wedged between a young American couple, first time abroad. It is a bit like living on a military base, everyone knows everyone, frequent get-togethers for lunch, coffee, diner with colleagues who converse in all manner of languages aside from Arabic, French or English. So it is a very stimulating environment and Mike, I believe, is a bit overstimulated but thriving.