Last night I went with Rachid to Kenitra. Something about that little town just to the North makes me really happy. It´s probably how quiet and serene it is compared to Rabat and the craziness of the craziest house in the Oudaya. It sounds like I missed out though, because Soufiane and the other American trainees went out to a hookah bar and then dancing at a club. That´s something I´ve only done twice in the entire month I´ve been in Morocco. It´s so strange, because when I´m at home, I spend most of my time uptown at the bars.

When I got back today, I started feeling a lot better than I´ve been feeling recently, which is excellent. I celebrated by going with Gabriel and Cassie for our first surf lesson with Soufiane. On my first try, I stood up for about a second! I was so excited. Cassie, Gabriel and I took turns for about an hour. When we had to quit because all the waves were gone, I was pretty happy because I was pretty tired, and pretty proud of my accomplishments. I look forward to my next lessons and improving.

Last night I had a couple nightmares, during both of which I sat up gasping. After further thought about these dreams, though, I´ve determined that the scariest part was that someone was in one of these dreams that I didn´t think was still in my thoughts.

Tomorrow we´re going to Casablanca, which I´m not really looking forward to, but 1) the other American trainees haven´t been yet, 2) when I was there it was for a stupid auto expo, 3) we´re not organized enough to make a trip elsewhere this weekend 4) nor do we have time. I guess Casa for a day will be tolerable, but I hate wasting a trip on a purely touristy place, and with next weekend´s trip to Essouira coming up, a relaxing weekend in Rabat will be nice.