Rainy day in Ifrane!

I was up late last night trying to figure out how to use my google chrome better - I had a little dark chocolate rush going.   I use my computer in my classes and it would be helpful if I could perform more functions with it.  I will probably get a better laptop before the end of the year.  PC or Mac - it's a hard decision.

It's good that we arrived in the middle of the tourist season here in Ifrane.  We had to get used to the noice right away.  Now that the tourists have left the Irish bar just down the street has started to go full blast with the returning students and the noise is worse now than before.  But, since we are already used to the noise, it doesn't affect our sleep...much.   At night, it's like living in little "New York".

It has been raining since 2am.  We went to the souk and it was like walking in red gumbo.   Ifrane is like south Georgia and north Tallahassee.  It has that rich red dirt that sucks the shoes off your feet once you've had a good hard rain. We then caught the grand taxi to Azrou to pick up some bowls, olives and raisins. Now that the tourists have gone, there are no more olives at the souk.  Azrou is about 15 kilometers down the mountain from Ifrane.  There is a place where the taxi exits the forest and the trees disappear and you can see all the way to the High Atlas Mountains - it takes your breath away.  Doris will go back to Azrou in a few weeks with  Angela who is an old friend of Doris and buy some rugs for the terrazzo floors - they will be icy cold once winter really hits.  Even with the rain today the temperature dropped and there was a bit of winter in the air.

Right now it's about 7pm and I'm kicked back on the couch writing my blog.  Doris is upstaits working in her office. I have some tests to grade and some lesson plans to work up for next week but I think I will take a little "power nap" first.  Life is good here and getting better.  I'm starting to get a better feel for this teaching gig.  I found out recently that Morocco has a mandatory retirement age of 65 - three more years of full time employment and then boom! retired again.  I can still work part time (3/4 load) so it won't be too bad.  Maybe by then I will be ready to just kick back and relax...maybe sooner - who knows.  As long as I can hang with Doris I'm happy.  Life is always sooooo interesting when Doris is around.