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No kidding. It’s been about 4 months since coming to Morocco for Peace Corps and I have a shit ton of bug bites. At first during training I thought I had scabies, then this past 4th of July weekend I got even more. Now I’m not sure if these are just mosquitos but they probably aren’t. I mean these are like scaring type of bug bites. It’s horrible and so damn itchy!!!! Just to demonstrate how horrible it’s gotten, this past weekend was 4th of July I was celebrating with some of my fellow PCVs and I guess throughout the whole celebration I was being eaten alive by various bugs! I never saw them and in the night they ate me like a fat kid eating chocolate cake. I woke up Sunday morning and my face was itchy! My face!! Come to find out as I look in the mirror I have bug bites all up and down the right side of my face. It looked like I was 15 and had just broken out! Except it was soooo itchy!!! AHHHH!!! Anyway it sucks and will probably continue to suck for the remainder of my time in Morocco lol…..kind of a long time haha. Oh and my arm looked like I had chicken pox again. I was like WTF bugs! No one else seemed to be getting eaten as much as me :( But don’t worry the bug attack did not take away from the celebration. Party on! So besides being eaten on a daily basis from Morocco’s finest, I moved into my own house! Very exciting!! It was really weird moving out of my host family’s house actually. I mean I didn’t want to see over excited but at the same time I couldn’t help it. I loved my family, they were great people and I plan on visiting them often but it is amazing to have my own place. After 4 months of home stay with three different families and having to constantly be on their watch, their diet and their time, it’s nice to be out! But it was weird moving out. I thought I was going to move out after breakfast but then they said stay until lunch and then after. So I said okay, free food! haha, plus I honestly liked my family a lot, so I didn’t really mind. I mean what was I going to do once I moved in? Just set stuff up, no biggie really. I was in no hurry. So then after lunch turned into early evening and then turned into staying to watch “Diablo” and then finally around 8pm I moved out haha. It was weird. I set up my bed and had no food in my house. My family had given me a piece of bread to take and the volunteer I replaced left some dry goods. I was going to make pasta BUT the water was out. I soon came to realize that my water goes out every evening around 6 or 7pm. This sort of sucks but not too bad. I mean I usually eat earlier than that or I just plan ahead and cook more during lunch to eat for dinner. So it doesn’t suck that much but that first night it did. So for my first “meal” at my house I had bread and water haha. The next day I also had no food but discovered that I had popcorn!! And I have a pressure cooker. So therefore I ate more bread, olive oil and popcorn on day two. Kind of sad and I remember laughing at myself right in the middle of moving things all around my house. Laughing at the fact that I would kill for a McDonald’s iced coffee right now. Laughing at the fact that I had only eaten bread, popcorn and water for two days and laughing at the fact that this is completely normal for me since being in PeaceCorps. I’m sure any PCVs reading this can agree somewhat with what I’m saying. It’s amazing how “normal” and “everyday” things become out here. It’s life in Morocco and in PeaceCorps. Finally the next day I went to visit my buddy Joe in Jerada and he fed me! Joe always feeds me!! Thanks Joe!!! I had some of his left over rice thing which was bomb!!!! And then he made me mac n cheese!! Life saver I swear! I definitely needed some calories. I had been moving things around, cleaning my house, sweating my brains out and yet had no food to replenish my energy. I was so tired! Anyway curently I’m listening to all of Matt Nathanson an SF Bay Area local! So holler! He’s got this Goo Goo Dolls feel but better and is a solo man like John Mayer but most likely not the jackass that Mayer is. So check him out lol. That’s my review! Um who is listening to Sara Bareilles’ new single “King of Anything”???? Please tell me everyone! God I love her! New record out September I believe! So sad that I can’t see her on tour this year :( Or the next one. Maybe she will come to Morocco? If so, I’m sooo going. I’ll have to travel two days from my Algerian side of things but it will be worth it lol. The hot sweaty train will be okay if I get to see Sara B. in the end lol. I’m have a great time in Morocco so far. Some days are easier and better than others but you have to have that balance. I think it would be unrealistic for any voluntee to tell you that they are always having a great time. It just can’t be true. But what I realize is true is that for every bad moment or bad day there are a ton of great ones. And the great ones out-weigh the bad ones anytime! My most favorite times in Morocco have been having jam sessions with my neighbors, teaching my host brother how to play the guitar and sharing meals with my fellow PCVs. Those times make getting all these damn bug bites okay. Things I do miss about America: -My friends and family -Mexican food!!!!!! -McDonald’s iced coffee whenever and whereever (at least an hour and a half and too much money for me to get here lol) -Missing Sara Bareilles’ new cd release and tour -Bacon whenever and whereever -The Partisan and the whole crew in Merced -My mom’s cooking. She can make paper taste amazing!!!! I do miss the ease of washing laundry but not as much as the things listed above lol. It really isn’t that bad, though my clothes are fading and I did manage to bleach a UCM shirt of mine :( EFF! Oh well lol. Some of the clothes in Morocco are pretty cool, guess I have to go shopping lol. Well that’s all for now. And um if anyone knows where Kacy is, I want to talk to her. So have her facebook me or email me!!!!!! Love, Socorra