Meknes!

So we're finally in Meknes!! Our home! Our apartment is AWESOME and so is everyone else's too so we spend a lot of time together, which is sweet. There is another girls apartment right above ours so they're even in the same building. We have a cook and a maid and I never thought I would be eating as much food as I have been!! All the food is amazing and traditional Moroccan cuisine which definitely adds to the fact that we're actually in Morocco. Yesterday we took a tour, in the pouring rain, of the Medina and the Ville Nouvelle in Meknes and sort of ran around trying to get our bearings of the city and figuring out where everything is. I bought a cell phone for getting a hold of some people here and some friends I make and we're also buying some internet later today so we can stay in touch. The guys live right above an internet cafe so we go to their place and use there internet here which is pretty convenient! Today we went to the university and had a small orientation and got to meet the dean and some of the professors and we got our schedules all figured out. I signed up for an extra term of Arabic and also for Derija which is the traditional Moroccan dialect. It is a short class that should only take a few weeks to go through and will be completely helpful for getting around in town and in the medina. Today we sort of have a free day and then we also have the weekend off. I'm looking forward to sort of touring the city on my own and figuring out all of the nooks and crannies of the medina!