Hammam Part II

So yea, anyway.....

It is just really weird how you think you are so eager to get home or do certain things and then when you are just about to leave you realize that you could actually spend more time in a place and still be happy. That has never really happened to me before because usually my eagerness to return to home soil outweighs any desire I have to stay in a country. I think that having spent so much time with the other PA interns has really influenced that feeling because I have always felt like I have been surrounded by a network of close friends and you normally don't have that when you travel. It is such a great feeling to be able to have an unusual and crazy experience, but still have a lot of people that are in the same situation. So you can call someone up and be like.....Yea I just have to go to the plate store, drink some mint tea, and then let's meet at hash corner, and no one else thinks you are crazy.


Today was a very good day for my Moroccan culture, as I had mint tea on two different occasions, went to the kasbah, ate couscous with my sis and host family for lunch, and....yes, you guessed it....went to the hammam! So the end result was quited good because I am ridiculously clean...the process was pretty crazy though because we went in and there were just topless women walking around all over the place! So we were given buckets and towels and we wandered into the steam rooms and found our way back to the hot water spout to fill up the buckets. We got scrubbed down by almost entirely naked women......modesty is out of the question. The lady that scrubbed me down looked at me like I had lost it when I tried to suggest that I might leave at least one article of clothing on...she shooed me along in the clothes removal process and continued to clean me like a mother might clean a 5 year old child. At the end I did finally get used to the idea that everyone being partially or entirely naked is not at all awkward for them, so it is really just part of getting clean. I am really glad I ended up going, although it definitely requires a certain attitude going in...