A typical training day:

1. Getting up in the morning having agarum (bread) and lqawa (coffee) with sweetened milk around 7:30
   

2. Lmadrasa (school) by 8:00
   

3. Intense language lessons until around 10:00
   

4. 10:00 atay (tea) which usually consists of sweetened mint tea and more coffee and milk, bread, laughing cow cheese, lconfituer (jam), honey and a delicious, and sweet, pastry of some sort.
   

5. Then from 10:30 to 12ish we have more language lessons
   

6. Around 12:00 we usually eat a 2 course lunch beginning with a big salad of rice and vegetables followed by almost anything. Usually tagine with potatoes, carrots, onions, green beans and chicken, suksu (cous cous) with veggies or some sort of beans. Whatever it is it is usually delicious. Our cook is fantastic and if I could fold her up and put her in my pocket and bring her with me to my sight I most certainly would.
   

7. We usually spend our afternoon discussing culture, meeting with people in our village (i.e. the imam, school teachers, farmers, association leaders etc...)
   

8. After school, around 6:30ish we usually walk home and either sit at the table in the main room or in our room and study and review more language
   

9. 7:30 we have another tea time with more atay and baked carbohydrates of some sort, after which I usually help do the dishes and finish preparing and cook dinner.
   

10. Then we usually eat dinner somewhere between 9 and 10:00 then more dishes and quickly off to bed.
    

One of the hardest parts of the culture besides the language is the eating every 2 hours, the mass amounts of starch and sugar, and eating dinner at 10:00. We do get some vegetable in the suksu and tagine but they are usually cooked to the point of mush so that you can eat it with the bread. They do have a lot of spices in Morocco, but most of the food here is really mild. We do get a lot of really good fruit including the most delicious oranges, bananas and apples. Our host mom also makes really good carrot and orange and cucumber and orange drinks. They are really refreshing and would make a wonderful summer dessert or cocktail, in the U.S., with your liquor of choice.