To Do List
I´m finally beginning to be productive again after a long week of being sick and tired. Yesterday I went to work for two hours, and learned a few phrases in Arabic from Naima, the permenant English teacher. She taught us things like ¨fuck you¨, ¨I am married¨, and other extremely useful phrases. We left because no new students came in, but Kate stayed for her daily class (she teaches two 15 and 16 year old girls, and a little boy. Cute). Aziz approached her after her class and told her that there were new students for her. She responded by telling him that he should probably give one of his other 5 trainees students before he gives her anymore. So now I have students, after a month and a few days of being in Morocco! Today is my first class, and I´m very pumped slash nervous.
I´ve found that the only way I can stay productive in the lazy country of Morocco is to keep an up-to-date to do list going. Most things aren´t very important on my list, but it´s nice to have in case I find myself sitting around doing nothing - which happens more often than I´d like to admit. My list right now includes--
>Read more books. So far this summer I´ve only read 5 and a half. A sad average for a month of doing nothing. Today I´m going to start Ken Kesey´s ¨Sometimes a Great Notion¨. It was in Peter´s library of books and has a pretty cover.
>Get a fucking Russian visa. Rachid and Romain, who I´m traveling with in August, want to visit Moscow. Unfortunately, it´s going to be very complicated for me, since foreign citizens can only obtain Russian visas in their own country. But being the stubborn Caitie Hawley that I am, I´m going to make it fucking happen. Ideas, anyone?
>Get stamps and mail the postcards that I wrote two weeks ago. The post office is on the other side of the medina. Mailing them means going through the medina, which is a) kinda far and b) runs the risk of me buying the world when I go through.
>Add all my pictures on facebook. This is tough, because my computer is slow as fuck - it takes about 15 minutes to boot up, and then loading the website takes a while as well. Overall, it takes about half an hour to load 5 pictures. Slowly but surely, they will be uploaded, dear friends.
>Finish setting up the specs for the Reds game for the Labor Day AIESEC event. My frustration with AIESEC in Morocco is starting to spread to AIESEC in general (uh oh) and makes it difficult to do AIESEC work. Let´s reverse that...
>Learn FRENCH! I´m learning more every day from Rachid and from listening to everyone talk, but it´s not enough. My natural instinct to understand everything all the time is nagging at me. Time to put the nose to the grindstone and STUDY this language.
Oh yeah. And blog more. ha.
I´ve found that the only way I can stay productive in the lazy country of Morocco is to keep an up-to-date to do list going. Most things aren´t very important on my list, but it´s nice to have in case I find myself sitting around doing nothing - which happens more often than I´d like to admit. My list right now includes--
>Read more books. So far this summer I´ve only read 5 and a half. A sad average for a month of doing nothing. Today I´m going to start Ken Kesey´s ¨Sometimes a Great Notion¨. It was in Peter´s library of books and has a pretty cover.
>Get a fucking Russian visa. Rachid and Romain, who I´m traveling with in August, want to visit Moscow. Unfortunately, it´s going to be very complicated for me, since foreign citizens can only obtain Russian visas in their own country. But being the stubborn Caitie Hawley that I am, I´m going to make it fucking happen. Ideas, anyone?
>Get stamps and mail the postcards that I wrote two weeks ago. The post office is on the other side of the medina. Mailing them means going through the medina, which is a) kinda far and b) runs the risk of me buying the world when I go through.
>Add all my pictures on facebook. This is tough, because my computer is slow as fuck - it takes about 15 minutes to boot up, and then loading the website takes a while as well. Overall, it takes about half an hour to load 5 pictures. Slowly but surely, they will be uploaded, dear friends.
>Finish setting up the specs for the Reds game for the Labor Day AIESEC event. My frustration with AIESEC in Morocco is starting to spread to AIESEC in general (uh oh) and makes it difficult to do AIESEC work. Let´s reverse that...
>Learn FRENCH! I´m learning more every day from Rachid and from listening to everyone talk, but it´s not enough. My natural instinct to understand everything all the time is nagging at me. Time to put the nose to the grindstone and STUDY this language.
Oh yeah. And blog more. ha.
posted by caitie at
6:42 AM
3 Comments:
eh alors, nous pouvons pratiquer. il a été longtemps que je parle français et je pense que j'ai tout oublié.
Well, Baby, I'll check around (when I get back) and see whether there's anything I can find out from the DC point of view about visas, but don't count on it... Countries tend to be sticky on visas, even when they're dealing with a Bold Woman Of Exceptional Resourcefulness.
<3, AD
Oh yeah -- Can you put up pictures here, too? :-)
<3, AD
xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo
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