Today Leah left Morocco. We woke up at 5:45 and slowly she gathered the last of her things and said goodbye. I just can't believe it is over and how much I have learned being a roommate. That is one thing I didn't expect from the program, but appreciate wholeheartedly.
Yesterday was a very productive day for Leah and me. We started out, a little sick from the night before, with a trip into the medina with our host mom. In all honestly I haven't seen our host mom outside of the house since the day we moved in. It is not that she doesn't go out, because she works five days a week, but I just don't leave the house with her. So, it was pretty strange and cute. She walked arm in arm with us and explained a lot of little things to me that I hadn't yet understood. We bought nice saffron for $3 and she bargained a nice couscousier for me down to $12. Happy mother's day to her!
After lunch and packing Leah and I headed back to the beach for some sun. We brought lemon slices to lighten our hair and lived dangerously, showing skin up to our knees!
Later we went into the medina with Carson and Mackenzie for a last whirlwind affair with Moroccan food. Hopefully none of us will have food poisoning today. Smoothies, medina sandwiches, and snail soup were our dinner. One bowl of snails was enough for all of us to share... at least we tried it?! While eating and wandering, we headed to the cliffs to watch the sun set, and then wandered back through the medina at night when it is bustling. Something special happened for me on those cliffs, which can't be expressed in pictures or words. And what matters is those other three people understand. Even if we never see eachother again, move to different parts of the country or the world and keep moving forward, that moment mattered.
So, Goodbye to Leah. May we see eachother again, wherever we end up.
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