Fin Medina?

Just to allay some fears, I was not harmed in this portion of the SIT program.  My drop off was actually surprisingly easy and didn't reveal as much of the city apart from the synagogue.  However, I did get an appreciation of how large the Medina is.  For some reason, I was one of the last people to be dropped off on our independent (and somewhat clueless) excursion of Rabat, which happened to be quite fortunate or unfortunate depending on how you look at it.  I ended up being only 2 blocks away from the Medina wall and could easily find my way to the part of the Ville Nouvelle that I have explored a lot already.  So, sadly, I did not have quite the exploratory adventure I was hoping, but I did end up feeling very comfortable walking around by myself and asking women which way I should go.  At one point just to make sure I knew where I was going, I stopped and used some broken French/Arabic to ask four women which way to go.  They immediately smiled and told me the way to the Atlantic (they had no idea what I was talking about when I attempted to say the name of the CCCL in Arabic or French), so I don't think the rest of my stay here will be too bad.  At the moment, I am waiting for my host family to come pick me and my massive amount of stuff up from the center and take me home with them.  Hopefully all goes well!

As the end, to my Orientation experience, we also went on a bus tour of Rabat and a little bit of Sale.  I'll tell you more about that later, and I promise I'll upload the pictures from that soon!