Tuesday, April 23, 2013

You Know You're In Peace Corps Morocco When....


  1. Bathing more than once a week just sounds like a lot of work.
  2. It seems bizarre to have less than 7 people in a car at one time.
  3. Your clothes aren’t dirty until you’ve worn them for at least 5 days straight.
  4. You eat French fries using a piece of bread. (Courtesy of Cait.)
  5. You follow other white people around Marjane because you can’t figure out where they came from.
  6. You don’t remember the last time you felt healthy.
  7. You don’t remember the last time you felt clean. (Courtesy of Libby.)
  8. You know you aren’t eating Couscous right until you sweat when you eat it. (Courtesy of Libby.)
  9. You can be 20 minutes into a conversation, and only THEN realize it hasn’t been in English.
  10. You’re either REALLY hot, or REALLY cold, but are pretty sure you’ve never actually felt a comfortable in-between.
  11. You’re an illegal alien while working for the U.S. Federal Government, and nobody really seems to be concerned by that fact.
  12. Trying to define "bacteria" and what it does is a lost cause. (Courtesy of Johanna L.)
  13. Bathing can be a 3 hour long affair and involve 100 other naked women all together.
  14. You steal anything you can get your hands on (i.e. ketchup packets, napkins, bread from a table, etc). (Courtesy of Libby.)
  15. All of your clothes are faded from hanging in the sun.
  16. You’ve already eaten parts of your care package before you’ve even seen everything in the box.
  17. You can say with all seriousness “Sure, I’ll walk to Marjane, it’s only 100 degrees outside currently.” (Courtesy of Cait.) 
  18. You debate if you’re willing to spend 6DH for the taxi across town, but it’s totally worth it to spend 250DH on a day trip to the city just for a beer off tap.
  19. Late trains and no available seating doesn't make a dent on your upset-o-meter. (Courtesy of Johanna L.)
  20. You have a few bags of trash in your room, because you can’t figure out where they’re supposed to go, and you know it’s hshuma to ask about garbage.
  21. Baby wipes are a perfectly acceptable form of bathing.
  22. Bowel movements are a normal subject of dinner time conversation. (Courtesy of Johanna L.)
  23. You’re washing your clothes and you know they’re still dirty, but you just don’t care anymore. (Courtesy of Cait.)
  24. You tell someone in Darija what you’d like to buy and that you don’t understand French, and they still respond in French and refuse to believe you know how to speak Darija.
  25. You’re favorite game to play in big cities is “Guess which nationality you think these tourists walking towards us are.”
  26. You try to figure out which Darija words will most likely come back to America with you (I’m going with hshuma, shims, brrd, and maarfsh).
  27. You’ve read more books in the last 3 months than you did in the 2 years before coming to Peace Corps.
  28. I can say the words “C’est la vie” and you’ll immediately start dancing at least a little bit.
  29. You’re given your own plate of food and you feel like you’re in trouble for something.
  30. You discover that both lizards and mosquitoes have been cohabitating in your room. (Courtesy of Johanna L.)
  31. You have to stop and ask what you're eating before you eat it. (Courtesy of Johanna L.)

Got any other good ones? Let me know and I'll add them to the list!

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