I think I may have mentioned this before, but because of the regulations of guides vs drivers in Morocco made it so Mohammed wasn’t allowed to do certain things with me. He’d have to get me a guide instead.
And I’d say so many times that I just didn’t think there were ever enough girls in Morocco. So… he found me a female guide! Khadijah, who was very cool.
Kadijah took me around, and my favorite thing was she told me about being a woman in Morocco, and how there were protests for rights, and their current King was the one who granted them. So, we love this current King. He’s like the “King for the Women,” as some think of him.
She told me she’d been working for practically the whole time that women had been allowed to do the same jobs as the men. And when I was talking about the lack of women I’d seen, she said it was probably because so many of the places I’d been thus far were fairly small cities, but in the bigger cities, more women are doing more things.
She took me around to some shops, and showed me various customs and things, like places that had special containers for wedding gifts, and how that works.
And then she took me all around. We went to see the gates of the Royal Palace (beautiful). The Fes Tanneries. The Medersa el-Attarine (where I got to go look at the very rooms students used who used to study there). In general, we went all around the medina to little shops and things. And I learned that people buy their grocery really just a couple of days worth at a time, really, usually, since fresh fish and meat are brought everyday.
We had a really love time in Fes, and then we keep it rolling tomorrow!