Volleyball Weekend

This weekend was our school's first volleyball tournament! We have just started putting together a sports program, so being involved in this was very exciting for our students! The tournament was all day Friday and Saturday. Sarah and I had originally planned on going for the Saturday games but when we found out there were Friday afternoon games, we found people to cover our classes and set out for Rabat...
Our train was supposed to leave at 2:03. So when a train pulled up at 2:02 and the sign said Fes (Rabat is on the way to Fes), we assumed it was our train and got on. About ten minutes into the ride, the conductor came around to check our tickets and told us we were on the wrong train...we were heading south! SO we got off at the next stop which happened to be the VERY small town of Bouskoura. We waited and waited for another train to come through and finally after an hour and ten minutes one arrived. By the time we got back into Casa we realized there was no way we were going to make it to the games.
Not wanting to go back to our apartment, we decided to play Casablanca tourist. We walked from the train station to La Scala (a restaurant) and ordered banana juice and mint tea...took pictures with the canons...and tried to forget how stupid we felt. We continued walking toward the mosque...taking random pictures with trees, flowers, archways, etc. We arrived at the mosque around sunset and stayed there for a couple hours talking, taking funny pictures, eating cookies that were meant for the players...trying to figure out what we wanted to do next. We called our friend Simo and he came and picked us up and we went out to dinner at TGI Fridays. Yeah for cheese broccoli soup, boneless wings, and real salad! And that concluded our lovely day in "Rabat".
On Saturday we actually made it to Rabat. The kids played well for only having had about 10 practices total and no prior sports experience. Both our girls team and our boys team finished last (4th) but they did not lose by much. We were quite proud!