Jeans, Jet Lag, & Juice!

So I’m starting to feel more at home! Today I wore jeans! I’ve been wearing flowy skirts all week to fit in more or rather, to not stand out. But  I see there are women wearing jeans especially in the area of Rabat near ILCS. Who knows, tomorrow I may get a mani pedi. I passed a place as I was  heading to the tram from preschool. 💅🏾 

Preschool went well. I tried to introduce some phonics today, but it might have been a bit much without a song or visuals besides my homemade letter cards. I played Gracie’s Phonics Song and they were not impressed… very attentive, but I can’t say impressed lol. 

By the end of the day we played games to recognize numbers and letters, but not in the usual alphabetic or numeric order. Then, I added shapes to the mix to combine shape recognition with counting and numbers. We did some “head shoulders knees and toes” and time flew by after that. I ripped some pages out of my spiral notepad again and tore each in half. They colored peacefully for the most part talking to each other in Darija except when hogging or fighting over specific  colored crayons. 

At the end of the morning session we sat down for lunch and even I had  some vegetable rice made by Madam and we took a selfie! And yes, I requested permission take the pic and prefer to block faces unless people make it clear it’s ok to post. 

Jet lag finally hit me today. I wanted to sleep longer this morning. And since I woke up I was looking forward to lunch and a pit stop before ICLS for some fresh juice. (At home I make a smoothie and/or juice pretty much every day and I really miss the freshness of it.) I took the tram over and juice was still the plan till I saw “Bling bling chicken”… “could this be what I think it is? —some kind of soul food place in Rabat?!” lol Lil Wayne and the Cash Money may never know there’s a fried chicken joint in Morocco that includes the phrase they coined back in the nineties. It took over 25 minutes to get my “Magic Pack” 3-piece chicken meal and when I did it was pretty good; it’s definitely poppin. The playlist included several songs from this guy: Jul. I couldn’t eat it all and ended up giving away the rest. 

The rest of the day flew by so I’ll recap. I took language lessons (but I cut short due to fatigue 😓). Ironically though, I spent 3 more hours walking all over the place. I ran into my program coordinator, who’s been an excellent host and we went to a juice place! That made my day… maybe I was just dehydrated because I got my second wind, walked to the mall, met a deaf guy who I was signing ASL letters to, walked around for another hour to window shop at the stores and took about 45min to walk back home. Let’s just say I should sleep well tonight!