Arrival

So after thinking I couldn't get to Morocco because I didn't have a visa I didn't need (and the Delta lady being stupid) I made it to Boston and met the others on my group flight and got through Air France no problem. The plane was old, so we didn't get any TV or anything, and I of course got the middle seat. We had a 6 hour lay over in Paris and got to Morocco yesterday.
After unpacking in our temporary hotel a brief orientation and a wonderful dinner I crashed and slept for 10 hours--the night was really cold.
Today was fun, after some boring orientation stuff and lunch we went on a bus tour of Rabat. It's amazing how much is being developed. Some of the buildings were only months old and there is building everywhere. Although the outskirts near the airport was pretty rural, this is a energetic modern city. In the medina, though, there is a huge marketplace that sells everything, from pirated DVDs to snails to TVs to clothes.
The center where we're having classes is beautiful in the Moorish style. The people seem really on top of things even though we're the pilot program.
Last thing today we got dropped off somewhere in Rabat and had to make it back to the center by ourselves... I actually was the first one back and managed to get help from a nice lady who gave me her phone number and said I could come over sometime... It was so much fun.