Drums and Dancing

Day 3 - After I woke up and took the quickest shower in the world, I stood outside of our gite and tried to call my mum.
It was Monday morning and she had some medical tests happening this week, but I couldn't get hold of her so I just left a message.
We walked back down to where we'd left the bus yesterday and I was chatting with two of the girls.
We ended up chatting about racism and I happened to tell them about a play I had read that covered it in a really intelligent way.
As we walked down from this tiny Moroccan village in the mountains, I realised that since leaving London 48 hours ago I had talked about writing a LOT.
I wondered if that made me self obsessed but I think, and I'm still not sure, that if you love something that you don't do all day every day you talk about it every other minute of every other day until it does become the thing you do.

The drive to our next location was along some of the most stunning mountain roads I have ever travelled on. They were windy and dramatic and unfortunately a lot of people in the group were suffering from travel sickness. I felt really sorry for them because they couldn't wait for these roads to be over but I couldn't get enough of them.

We arrived at a place called Ait Benhaddou which is a UNESCO world heritage site and the location where scenes from movies like Lawrence of Arabia, The Mummy and Gladiator were filmed. We walked up through the Kasbah there and watched the sunset which was beautiful.
Afterwards we went to a cous cous and tagine cooking demonstration by a guy called Action Man - so called because he had been in many of the movies filmed here - and then headed back to our hotel for dinner.
After dinner we sat round and listened to some of the locals play drums and sing songs which was great. They tried to get us to join in and kept asking us to sing an english song and the weird thing was I couldn't think of any.
In the age of IPods and Playlists the one song I couldn't name was a song that gave a sense of my country.
Luckily the Canadians came up with a hockey song and I was glad because aside from our national anthem and football chants I had nothing.
After that the guys had us all up dancing for a while before we sloped off to bed for some much needed rest.