Happy belated birthday, America! I celebrated the 4th of July by doing the most patriotic thing I could think of and applying for my absentee ballot.
Did you know that Morocco was the first country to publicly recognize America's independence and the first piece American public property outside the United States was in Tangiers? I wanted to tell my host family about it at dinner last night, but there's no way my Arabic is up to that.
Also, Morocco very kindly put on a miniature fireworks display for the 4th. And my miniature fireworks display, I mean the schoolyard across the street from my apartment caught on fire (because it's really hot, my host sister told me) and I stood on my roof at 1:00 in the morning and pretended the flames were fireworks while praying that someone other than me knew about the fire and was dealing with it. Eventually my neighbors came out to the roof as well and I asked if the fire was a problem. They told me no because it was contained by the school walls (which are covered in scorch marks now), and after about an hour, a firetruck showed up to take care of the blaze, answering my question of whether there are firetrucks in Morocco.
Did you know that Morocco was the first country to publicly recognize America's independence and the first piece American public property outside the United States was in Tangiers? I wanted to tell my host family about it at dinner last night, but there's no way my Arabic is up to that.
Also, Morocco very kindly put on a miniature fireworks display for the 4th. And my miniature fireworks display, I mean the schoolyard across the street from my apartment caught on fire (because it's really hot, my host sister told me) and I stood on my roof at 1:00 in the morning and pretended the flames were fireworks while praying that someone other than me knew about the fire and was dealing with it. Eventually my neighbors came out to the roof as well and I asked if the fire was a problem. They told me no because it was contained by the school walls (which are covered in scorch marks now), and after about an hour, a firetruck showed up to take care of the blaze, answering my question of whether there are firetrucks in Morocco.
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