Tinejdad's Breakfast Club
22.10.05
There are two new English teachers in Tinejdad, both coming from large cities and finding it hard living in such a small town as Tinejdad. It is their first year of teaching and they were placed in Tinejdad this year. Ilham comes from Sale but now her family lives in Fes. She is very nice and so funny. She is going to be my new tutor. Siham comes from Caza and is also very sweet. They both speak perfect English and they are much different than any other young Moroccan woman I have ever met. They love to go out, hang out, laugh, tell stories, and you can talk about any anything with them. You don’t have to sensor yourself around them like you have to around other Moroccans. When I am with them, it feels like I am with my girlfriends back home. They live together and keep each other company but they do not like being in such a small town and they feel like foreigners like me.
My friend Hussaine introduced us. Hussaine is good friends with Summer and Nathan and all of us like to hang out. He is an English teacher at the high school and has become a really good friend and a key player in my life here. This summer, he went to America and stayed with Nathan and Andy’s families for a while. I told him that next time he will have to make his way out west to meet my family.
Having all of these English speakers in town, we decided to take advantage of it. We kind of formed our own single’s club and we started to call ourselves the “Breakfast Club.” This is because we have gotten together on several occasions to break fast and have l’iftor (breakfast).
Here are the people in attendance:
-Summer and Nathan (the only exception to who are not single)
-Hussaine (local English teacher and good friend of volunteers in town)
-Ilham (one of the new English teachers…the outgoing one)
-Siham (the other…the quiet one)
-Andy
-Mohamed (owner of the Ferkla café and good friends with all of us…only one who doesn’t speak English but he always brings the bread)
-Myself
We have taken turns having l’iftor at everyone’s houses. The host will usually cook the soup and then everyone else brings something to add to our breakfast. After we have all eaten, we sing and play music and have a good time…sometimes there is even dancing!
This Saturday, we had breakfast at Hussaine’s house and on Monday Andy and I will host it. It’s so much to be able to hang out with Moroccans and just be yourself. We all have so much fun together and I am so glad that we know each other. It will be sad when two of our members leave next month but hopefully we will get some new groupies.
Once Ramadan is over and breakfast starts in the morning again, our breakfast club will have to think of new meals but I think we are all up for the challenge!
There are two new English teachers in Tinejdad, both coming from large cities and finding it hard living in such a small town as Tinejdad. It is their first year of teaching and they were placed in Tinejdad this year. Ilham comes from Sale but now her family lives in Fes. She is very nice and so funny. She is going to be my new tutor. Siham comes from Caza and is also very sweet. They both speak perfect English and they are much different than any other young Moroccan woman I have ever met. They love to go out, hang out, laugh, tell stories, and you can talk about any anything with them. You don’t have to sensor yourself around them like you have to around other Moroccans. When I am with them, it feels like I am with my girlfriends back home. They live together and keep each other company but they do not like being in such a small town and they feel like foreigners like me.
My friend Hussaine introduced us. Hussaine is good friends with Summer and Nathan and all of us like to hang out. He is an English teacher at the high school and has become a really good friend and a key player in my life here. This summer, he went to America and stayed with Nathan and Andy’s families for a while. I told him that next time he will have to make his way out west to meet my family.
Having all of these English speakers in town, we decided to take advantage of it. We kind of formed our own single’s club and we started to call ourselves the “Breakfast Club.” This is because we have gotten together on several occasions to break fast and have l’iftor (breakfast).
Here are the people in attendance:
-Summer and Nathan (the only exception to who are not single)
-Hussaine (local English teacher and good friend of volunteers in town)
-Ilham (one of the new English teachers…the outgoing one)
-Siham (the other…the quiet one)
-Andy
-Mohamed (owner of the Ferkla café and good friends with all of us…only one who doesn’t speak English but he always brings the bread)
-Myself
We have taken turns having l’iftor at everyone’s houses. The host will usually cook the soup and then everyone else brings something to add to our breakfast. After we have all eaten, we sing and play music and have a good time…sometimes there is even dancing!
This Saturday, we had breakfast at Hussaine’s house and on Monday Andy and I will host it. It’s so much to be able to hang out with Moroccans and just be yourself. We all have so much fun together and I am so glad that we know each other. It will be sad when two of our members leave next month but hopefully we will get some new groupies.
Once Ramadan is over and breakfast starts in the morning again, our breakfast club will have to think of new meals but I think we are all up for the challenge!
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