ouarzazate

after todra we headed to ouarzazate, this was mainly due to the fact i was really sick and appeared to be getting worse and their was a doctor there. sadly this meant missing the dades gorge which id been really looking foward too and ouarzazate itself sounded dull. as it turned out after a fairly painful and long bus journey by the time i reached ouarzazate i was beginning to feel better. we spent a couple of days not really doing much but ouarzazate was quite enjoyable. the highlight was when we were at a cd store a couple of college girls (both called miriam)approached us and had a chat to practise their english. they were really nice and ended up inviting us too their house and we spent the day hanging out with them and their sister (well the sister to one of them) aisha. it was cool cause it was the first time we'd reallt got a chance to spend anytime hanging out with moroccan women, they dont run any of the shops or tourist stuff (except strangly internet cafes) so you dont have a lot of chances to interact with them. it was also the first time we'd hung with young people in a non-business, money oriented way. it was a lot of fun, they dressed flick up in moroccan wedding clothes, ive got pics but she'll kill me if i put them here. we ate a meal and really confused them with our vegetarianism, their unusual response was after the meal to show us a home video of a sheep being slaughtered islamic style. it was strange cause we didnt really do much but just cause it was so much less touristy than the other things we'd done and cause they were cool it was one of the most fun days we'd had so far.