Last week during the tutoring session, a friend of mine mentioned a crepe place on Cannery Row. While I thought this was cool and all, I wasn't that interested at first. But then I found out something very important. This crepe place is owned by a Moroccan man. Why is this important? Because it's the same Arabic dialect as the Algerian dialect, and everyone knows how I feel about Algeria. So, naturally, I had to go to this crepe place, known as Crepes A-Go-Go. My friend Kim and I went there for lun
ch today. It was fantastic. I hate to say it, but the crepes were actually better than the ones I had in Paris. We met the Moroccan man and he spoke to us in the North African dialect, which neither Kim nor I could understand. One of the guys working there was from Yemen and we could understand him perfectly, which makes me feel like I actually have made progress! We walked back from Cannery Row to downtown Monterey, which wasn't nearly as bad a walk as we thought it would be. On the way back, we stopped for gelato at Koko's Cafe. It's owned by a Lebanese man and we just happened to sit next to two girls chatting in Arabic. One was Jordanian and the other Palestinian. They were nice and let us practice our (very limited) Arabic with them. So, today I went to France, Morocco, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine....not bad for one day!
ch today. It was fantastic. I hate to say it, but the crepes were actually better than the ones I had in Paris. We met the Moroccan man and he spoke to us in the North African dialect, which neither Kim nor I could understand. One of the guys working there was from Yemen and we could understand him perfectly, which makes me feel like I actually have made progress! We walked back from Cannery Row to downtown Monterey, which wasn't nearly as bad a walk as we thought it would be. On the way back, we stopped for gelato at Koko's Cafe. It's owned by a Lebanese man and we just happened to sit next to two girls chatting in Arabic. One was Jordanian and the other Palestinian. They were nice and let us practice our (very limited) Arabic with them. So, today I went to France, Morocco, Lebanon, Jordan and Palestine....not bad for one day!