So I found out today that right across the street from AUI is the king's castle. I was walking down a side road with my friends when we saw the side entrance across the street with royal guard protecting it. Pretty cool. Also, I got to walk around Ifrane and see the best places to overlook the surrounding mountains. I go to school in honestly one of the most beautiful places in Morocco.
Tonight, I went to a concert at the auditorium by two Moroccan singers. They seemed to be very popular and all the Moroccans knew most of their songs. It was a lot of fun and there were a ton of people there. Didn't understand most of it, but they ended the show with a "pacifist" song about Palestinians.
I had an interesting experience in my History of the Arab World today. We are talking about the rise of the Islamic State, and naturally about the life of Muhammed. The class though, being taught in a predominately Muslim country, has Islamic undertones at every stage. The students uses suras in the Qur'an as historical basis for the lives of the early followers and Muhammed himself. It is definitely different from the states, including Boston College. The undertones were again felt in the concert when the two singers started chanting الله اكبر which is the "stereotypical" Muslim saying for God is great. Overall, it was a very interesting day.
I started drinking arabic coffee here and I don't think I will ever be able to drink the coffee at BC again. I finally understand why arabic teachers have referred to it as water.
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ahem, Jeff, I never called BC coffee "water," ha ha.. I call it something else usually, but this is a "family" site, so I won't go there.
ReplyDeleteAlso, with regards to الله أكبر, it's a cultic cry (not necessarily a saying), similar to the Christian (originally Jewish) Aramaic "Halleluja" (which literally means "Praise the god Ya" ("Ya" being one of the original references to Yahveh...) Take care, okay?