Sissssssssssss

Yes, that's right!! Just one more day until the sis arrives. Very exciting. I am going to go pick her up in Casablanca tomorrow, although I told a couple of my students that I am actually going today to pick her up so that I could get out of a lunch invitation. The same (male) student has invited me several times and it is starting to get creepy. He always asks me if I am his favorite student and I tell him that all my students are my favorites. So now I just need one more excuse for next week.......I feel really bad but his lunch invitations always turn into afternoon invitations and I just don't want to feel uncomfortable all afternoon. Is that selfish?

So I finally got everyone to play Mafia yesterday, which made me ridiculously happy. It was just like camping with the Outing Club, minus the bonfire. I also went to the post office in the afternoon, which would not be worthy of mention at home, but it was actually quite an ordeal here. I received a slip in the mail saying that I can come pick up a package until 18 45 Monday through Friday, so I went with my friends at about 5 20 yesterday. After about 45 minutes of arguing with the Postal worker I was informed that I actually have to come before 16 00, because that is the time when the customs workers are there. I told them that I thought it was ridiculous to send a note with the incorrect hours and he told me that I needed to come before 16 00 because that was then the customs workers are there. I said that I understood that, but that I would have appreciated the message slip being sent with the correct time so that I did not have to make two trips. I told me that I needed to come before 16 00 because that is when the customs workers are there. I was so tempted to say...wait, what? I should come before 1600? I am confused. But I did not think he would appreciate my humor, at least not in French. He just kept repeating it over and over like a slowly dying tape recorder. Needless to say, I am still not in possession of the package.

Well, that is just about all. I am going to see what the odds are of acquiring lunch at this early hour of 2:10, and then I am going hotel shopping for sis and back to the post office. Before 16:00. I hear that's when the customs workers are there.