New Fes Family
I had a slight problem with my homestay arangement when we arrived back in Fes. Originally my Fes Family said that they would be in the Rif mountains durring this phase. But a week before I returned to Fes Kempie received an email that they would be in Fes durring this time and they wanted to host me. Wonderful, I would hit the ground running when I returned to Fes.
When the time came for our reunion, Kempie, Dana and I walked up to the store
They quickly explained that this was "musi mushkil" or not a problem, but we decided that it would be best if I stayed with the family downstairs in their building. So Kempie asked if they would host a stranger from the US for three weeks, and being a Moroccan family they agreed; again the warmth and ease that a family is willing to take in a student is just amazing.
So I have a new family here in Fes. I live in the apartment below my previous family with Unis, Bahdra, their parents and an adorable little girl named Nuhayla. I am learning considerably more Darija and french with this family because no one speaks English. Especially with the little girl, she only speaks Darija, but that doesn't stop her from talking on end for hours if I let her. Unis took me to the Hmmam on Monday, I had not been to the hmmam with a local before, and Unis is a hmmam expert. He ran around distributing water and rubbing the dead skin off other men's backs. He would occasionally catch me off guard by pouring a bucket of hot water over my head. He scraped my skin so thoroughly with my abrasive hmmam scrubby that I turned red. Things are going smoothly here in Fes, unfortunately the end of our time in Morocco is coming to a close.