This past week I visited Morocco with my program and had the time of my life! :) Not many would have enjoyed a trip with more than 40 hours of transportation by bus in six days, but we were in good company and could not have asked for anything better. We left Granada at 3:00 am on Friday morning and drove down to Algeciras, Spain. Here we hopped on a ferry and crossed the Mediterranean to Ceuta, Spain in Northern Africa. We could not believe we were on the African continent and probably would have been content with that if we had not gone further :) You can tell by my ecstatic picture on the ferry ;)
Ceuta, Spain looked pretty much like the rest of Southern Spain, much to our dismay, but this soon changed as we headed for the Moroccan border. Our customs experience crossing in to the Moroccan border was interesting to say the least. Our directors had collected all of our passports to be examined and stamped with approval while we waited on the bus. However while we waited, a young police officer stepped on to the bus and promptly pulled out a black gun and pointed it at the forehead of our director... naturally startling him, and everyone else. Little did we know this black gun was used only to check out temperatures! SO after he explained himself, he walked down the bus and point the gun at everyone's face to check out temperature before passing through the border. It was a bit nerve racking. So after an hour and a half in customs we had made it to Morocco! :)
The minute we turned the first bend in the road we knew we were in an entirely different world. Donkeys and mules pulled carts, filled with vegetables and children, along the road and donkeys worked the fields alongside the road as well. It was as if we had stepped back in time. You'll have to hang with me throughout the next few entries... I haven't the slightest idea how I am going to tell you everything!
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