11.07.2007

Sites I'd Swear By

Sites in Morocco I'd swear by...
  • A sheep riding a man’s lap on a donkey
  • A sheep on the top of a bus
  • A pair of David Hasselhoff hightops
  • A tooth puller with a booth on the street
  • The blowing up of a cow’s and sheep’s skin
  • Men holding hands with men and women holding hands with womenfields of women harvesting barley
  • Fields of black plastic bags holding onto branches for dear life
  • Goats grazing at the tops of argon trees
  • Burning trash
  • Cows walking through downtown
  • 19 people in a land rover
  • 7 people in a sedan
  • Blankets on the floor and carpets on the couches
  • Men wearing winter coats in 100 degree weather
  • Cows on roofs
  • Goat head tagine
  • A meal of intestines wrapped around the stomach
  • A man on a moped with a big foam mattress rolled up, sticking up from between his legs, watching the road with his head stretching around the mattress
  • three Moroccan men on a scooter
  • A sheep shoved into a crate on the back of a moped
  • Camels running through traffic
  • A passenger sitting on the left hand side of the driver
  • Boys running with tire rims steered by sticks
  • Newborns with coal on their eyes
  • old women with tattooed chins, foreheads, noses, and wrists
  • Traveling minstrels
  • Forty flies from your ankle to your knee
  • Piles of Dates on Rooftops
  • A woman leading a horse into the kitchen to drop off the flour
  • One kid shooting milk at another kid with a sheep’s utter
  • Graves marked only by a rock
  • People getting on and off buses in the middle of nowhere
  • Skinned camel heads to be sold hanging be the tongue on hooks
  • Women washing clothes in streams, tide pools, irrigation ditches, and rivers
  • Sold on the side of the road: prickly pears, honey, argon oil, olive oil, bananas, fossils, rugs, and geods
  • Bargaining for: the bathroom, rent, bus rides, taxi rides, haircuts, and anything with a price

Things only Moroccans would do
~More oddities~

  • Honk at the car in front of you at a red light
  • Pick your nose anywhere
  • Make an old lady stand up while you sit down
  • Never make a line for anything. Just run and shove and push to get what you want
  • Form a crowd around an argument
  • Greet someone by shaking their hand and putting your hand over your heart

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