Sometimes students wear dejellaba and sometimes they dress just like my students at home. Sometimes girls wear head coverings and on other days the same girls don't. It doesn't seem to indicate how religious a student is, it seems to be more about what they felt like wearing that day.
Some of the boys in this class proudly wore their Djellabas and were eager to have their picture taken. There was one boy who wore this to class last week and I told him it looked cool, so I think the word spread. I had asked Houria why he wore it, thinking that maybe he was more conservative than the others. She said that maybe he was just to lazy to change after resting or going to the Mosque.
This morning I gave a Power Point presentation about my school to 3 of Houria's English classes. I'm glad I included pictures of the cafeteria in my presentation, because public schools here don't have cafeterias. Here classes run from 8am to noon, then everyone goes home, and then they come back from 2pm to 6pm
Do you know what International Holiday today is? Moroccans know. They celebrated it with TV programs featuring students talking to government officials about social issues. Also there were celebrations at the train stations with speakers and karaoke. Also, every woman passenger was given a rose. There is something to be said about how Moroccans celebrate International Women's Day.
The craftsmen included leather workers with fashionable purses, belts and shoes, wood workers, bronze workers, stone carvers and jewelry makers.
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