Put your snicker doodles down, home ec. has actually come in handy for me. I’ve just finished sewing my pants back together. Yes, I know, it’s trivial and a lot of people do it. But shut up. And yes, they’re black pants and the thread I used is a light blue and it’s probably not the best cross stitch, but whatever- I did it. Now I feel accomplished and have a serious craving for snicker doodles, which I just may be able to make...
My second household chore I accomplished this morning was- I MADE BREAD! Okay, so I helped make bread. But I basically did a lot of it. And it is a lot more of a work out than I anticipated. But, the end product was amazing. A little thank you to our CBT cook, who is such a sweetheart and amazing cook. So add making bread and sewing my pants back together to the list of things I’ve accomplished so far. I’ve made tea all by myself (it’t not just a tea bag over here), but I need to tweak it a bit.
We now have total of 12 “school” days left. Holy raspberries on ice (that’s right), that is not a lot at all. I still feel like a first grader on the first day of school- who color’s outside the lines by accident. Actually, that’s basically my life, so there’s really nothing different. There’s a few things that are running through my head right now:
- One day I will actually understand Tamazight
- One day, Moroccans will actually understand me speaking Tamazight
- I’ve eaten more fruit in the past month than I have in the last 2 years of my life
- I hate the Turkish toilet
- I miss my shower in Wading River, so so so so so so so incredibly bad
- Will I get to watch True Blood somehow
- WHEN WILL MOM SEND ME MY ROBINS EGGS
- How cold will it get in my site
- A week on a boat in the Mediterranean
- What the heck am I gonna do as my project
- The lemon tang here taste like crystal light lemonade and I love it
- I really hate the Turkish toilet
That’s just a few thoughts, but imagine them all popping into my head every 5-10 seconds. Then something shiny goes by and I’m distracted; please, I may have moved to a different country, but some things don’t change.
While I’m starting to become insanely exhausted, and watching a butt load of movies, I am learning how to cook more, which is nice. When I’m all on my own I’m gonna have to learn some serious cooking for one skills and I’m trying to collect as much knowledge of cooking with butane that I can. If anyone has any easy recipes that they would like to share, please.. indulge! I’ll have plenty of time to try them.
This upcoming weekend is the Rose Festival. I am currently living in the Valley of the Roses, so everyone is frantically running around getting everything together to sell- such as rose water, rose oil, figs, nuts, and the lists goes on. It’s suppose to be this big intense festival, so I’m really excited to go check it out. Below is a picture of a room in my house, all hand picked roses laid out to dry. My Aunt will then either use these herself at the local Association to make rose water, or will sell them to another for rose water use. For those of you who are not familiar with rose water (to which I’m still becoming) they use it here for a lot of purposes. It is very good for your skin, eyes, and stomach; it is also used for cooking. I will admit I have been using a bottle on my skin... I don’t sense much change, but I’ll keep you updated.
And on this note, I’m off to help my Auntie in the kitchen. Well, probably just stand there and watch the cous cous get steamed. Man, if they knew we cooked our cous cous in 5 minutes- it would blow their minds.
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