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Posted on Monday August 9th 2010 at 5:37 a.m.
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Day by day new things are being learnt, customs, words, names and stories all shared by people who I met on the streets of small villages here or travellers who stay at the hostel, The stories and characters create motivation, inspiration, guidance and knowledge which all contributes to the journey of life.
Lunch today was again shared with the Moroccan family who live in the small village a stones throw from the ocean, the father spends his summers and part of the winter living off the ocean catching fish, cooking Tagine with his wife and daughter who come to visit him during the day who also join him for a pot of mint tea. He speaks not a word of English but brings me a mint tea after each surf session which unfortunately can't be too good on the old teeth but sheesha it tastes good. No forks needed like in the western world, it's all hands so we chowed down on the succulent fish and between our conversation of a little Arabic, French, English and my animated hand gestures - a little like charades - the fishermans daughter demonstrated to me how to cleanly bone a fish and dodge the sharp bones which would have ended our conversation and my time in Morocco had she let me carry on the way I was going.
The fisherman's daughter had her 18th birthday two days ago, she is learning English so I bought her a translation book from Arabic to English. She would learn words in between her time in the water, she borrows one of our soft boards and gets out there and surfs. It must feel rather liberating being a muslim girl taking part in such a sport, she has been surfing for a week and already showing such natural poise and strength riding the waves all the way to the sand. It is very inspiring, one is given an opportunity and chooses to make the very most of it.
Another Roxy week has come to an end, after a week full of coaching 15 ladies the beauty of surfing my body needs to rest, we surfed ourselves silly, danced to berber music (the local stuff) among other funny times.
There is still not much surf around but again the longboard pulls through.