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Khadija Chamrouk 9 years…

…needs our help! I saw this poster in our hotel lobby My regular readers know that I’m trying to learn French. Sauver > save  une vie > a life but whose life and why? I spoke with Dr. Hasnaa Azmi and treasurer Tazi Samir from Amicale… This translation is by google from the original French

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after hell…

…this is paradise!  Back in the hotel… what’s wrong – the Twin Center – those buildings are not standing straight? or the horizon is too straight? oh, yes! I’m going to relax for an hour or two… Our sun is strong and I’m not going to burn myself… How’s your life?

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you pay the full price but…

you get second class stuff… or what do you think? This is what we got… How anyone dare to give this kind of shit for the full price (rent)? and how charming is this? 

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espresso s'il vous plait…

Casa is full of coffee shops/cafes/cafeterias/terraces… to have a cup of espresso! Look at the size of that sugar cube! Here they insert a coffee capsule into the coffee machine.Used capsules are automatically ejected into a removable storage drawer each time a new one is inserted so your hands never get wet or dirty when brewing.

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boulevards, beach life and image question…

This is the ‘wrong boulevard’ we took at the weekend… 🙂 Hotels, beach clubs, swimming pools… Many people playing and walking but only a few were swimming… At home I noticed what that man was doing…No toilets???  Guess what is the most popular restaurant in Casablanca? Obesity will be a problem here too… The ‘correct

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bits and pieces from Casa…

My blogging is not totally back on track yet.New thing in our life is that my husband is free at the weekends!(In Cairo we had Fri-Sat as a weekend so I was ‘free’ to blog on Sunday…)Here in Casa my husband is totally free from Friday afternoon till Monday morning. No phone calls, no emails to

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morning walk in Casa downtown…

This morning I had my first longer walk – here are  couple of pictures I took…I walk only one street at the time because I got already lost once! Tassa muutamia kuvia aamukavelylta…Uskallan kavella yhden kadun ees taas koska eksyin jo kerran – talla kertaa selvisin hienosti! 🙂 OMAN wanted to practise English with me… 🙂

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greetings from Casa, Morocco!

Here we are, in Casablanca > Casa, Morocco! What a beautiful, small city if you compare to Cairo. But we don’t compare because these two cities are totally different! We’ve been so happy to be able to walk again! Just out of the hotel door and it’s easy to walk to the beach or to the Twin

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countdown started…

About one week to go and we fly to Casablanca…I’ve been a good girl. I’ve tried all the clothes on what I’m going to pack with us. And guess what – I found my old pair of jeans and they fit! Jippii! all my excercise materials are soon packed… I get excercise enough carrying things up

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connecting people…

We got new yellow pages phone books…In Arabic version Nokia’s ad is big… Saimme kotiin keltaiset sivut. Nokia mainostaa isosti tässä arabian kielisessä versiossa… But in this version, in English, ad is only on the back of the book… Tähän englannin kieliseen versioon riitti selkämyksen mainos… Home delivery is very common and cheap here. Do

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