So, I’m now an official Peace Corps Volunteer and am officially living in Beni Mellal, Ramadan has come to an end, and it’s cold in Morocco. Yesterday was the swearing-in ceremony in a really nice hotel in Fez. I took the oath of office and now I realize it’s too late to turn back. The day before Thanksgiving was L’AAid, the holiday that marks the end of Ramadan. I spent the entire day going around to families and eating cookies. In an ideal world, this isn’t a bad day, especially since the entire country has been fasting for 30 days; however, once you’ve eaten about 302,4872,54.83 coconut almond cookies…..
And it’s cold. Everything’s made out of cement, so the cold stays in. It’s great! I like being bundeled up in lots of blankets because I’m too cheap to go buy a jacket, maybe next winter

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