Week in Morocco

   Hi everyone!  I hope everyone is having a good February!  As most of you know I am in Morocco, Africa for a week.  

   So for this week we have a guide who is driving us all around and he is also supposed to give us information because he is a guide but according to my parents he is not doing a great job at giving is information.  But for me he is not doing the driving part well.

Why my parents think he is not doing a great job of giving information:

   1. When we arrive in each town he gives us to another guide to give us the tour.

  2. When we came back today from one city we came back the same way.

  3. He does not just give us information freely we have to ask and then he will answer.

Why I think he is not good at driving:

   I personally don't think he is a great driver is because I have seen my life flash before my eyes once and a dog saw his life flash before his eyes to.  

First Story:

  So this happened on Saturday the 13 of February (2016).  So this scene had a dog a car and everyone and everything that was in the car.  

   So in Morocco there are wild dogs.   So we where just driving along when all of a sudden we hit something and then we stop at the side of the road.  I did not see the dog run out on the the street, well actually no one did, but I guess you could say we ran over the dog but not with the tire.  Anyway the did was alive but I can't say the same for the car.  Yes the car works, No the car does not look good.

Damage:

So just because of one little dog it hit the tires, the whole front of the car and oh yes one of the front lights popped out.

Back to Story:

   So to be onset I did not care a lot about the car really I just cared about the dog.

Second story:

   So this is the story of how my life flashed before my eyes:

   So this story takes place today (Sunday 14, February, 2016)

   So February is supposed to be Moroccos rainy season but well let's just say that's not working out this year.  It has not rained one single drop in Morocco this whole year!  So it finally rained today but I am sure you all know that when it is so dry an it has not rained for weeks that it will get really slippery on the road.  Well I was in the car for 4 hours and saw 5 car crashes.  I have only seen one car crash in one week at the most!  Anyway we went around one corner but it was too slippery and we went crazy!  Anyway we almost crashed!🙈🙊🙉😅😱🤕

Anyway now I have a few photos to show you:

My Dromedary

 Monkeys!

I do have those and more in a video which you will be able to find on YouTube and if you want pictures please check out my Instagram!

Instagram: _joanie_12_

 

France🇫🇷

Hello everyone I am so sorry I have not written in what seems to be like years... I have been so very busy that I completely forgot about my blog... I hope everyone is having a great New Year!

So for this paragraph I am going to write about something that happened to me at volleyball last Thursday: so I got out of the car right in front of the building that I play/practice volleyball.  (She always drops me off never comes in with me).  And so when I want inside the gym part and I looked down at my feet I noticed that I was wearing my boots!  So I told the two men who do the volleyball (and they are booth really nice) that I was wearing my boots.  So then I just sat there while the other 2 girls who had come to practice jumped rope. (Our warm up is jumping rope).  Finally one of the coaches came over and told me I was still going to play but in my socks!  Let me just say it was the most slipperiest experience I had ever had!

So now that you've heard that hilarious stories I'm going to tell you another story that happened to me the day after at school:

So me and my friends we're playing this game (when it rains we play this game because then there are puddles) we are one friend was playing one arm and another friend was playing my other arm and the third friend was pushing me from the back.  The point was to get me to step in a puddle, but we always do it at such an angle that we knew we were never going to step in the puddle... Well my third friend started to talk to someone and the other two girls got distracted so I ended up slipping and falling on my back on one of the largest puddles!  My third friend felt so bad that you went into the bathroom and helped me clean off my back with the towel!  I could go into more details but then I would be typing forever!

This is a picture of me and Audrey sitting in front of a castle we went to.

I think that's enough for now but I'll make sure to write soon.

Whats Up?

   Hello everyone i know it is so weird that i am writing so often but its like i have fans who always want me to write and i love writing and and love technology so how could i say no?!  Anyway so please comment or email me at joan.m.gaskins@gmail.com * and tell me whats up.  Also you can always text me on google hangouts but only for the email joan.m.gaskins@gmail.com

   *for some people that does not work so if it does not work try gimmee12cookies@gmail.com

    So today we went to an old Roman theater and it was awesome... we went to one a couple days ago but that one was not very complete it barely had the walls.  This one was very whole meaning it had most of the marble columns and the big statue of some Roman god but the Roman God was found fragment by fragment and is now a whole statue which if you think about it that is pretty amazing.  At the beginning we watched a film of what they use to use the old theater for and the really hard times it had been through.  At one time it was used to fight and apparently the audience found that great entertainment* then at another time it had a village inside of it and then it was used for what we think a theater should be used for**... PERFORMANCES!!!👍  (we had an audio guide) At one point my  audio guide talked about in one performance they actually had a real live fire and they burned and actor in front of the audience and the burning had to to with the play but they made it real just for the audiences amusement!!😬.

*i don't but i guess that did not know.  i mean seriously watching people get killed is NOT good entertainment but then again they did not even know what toothpaste was of calcium!

**i least i think so... Who's with me?👍👎👌

  Right before we went to the old Roman theater we went to a museum that was on the same ticket as the theater.  (so we went to the old theater got the ticket and then went to the museum across the street first because it was 11:00 and the museum closed at 12:30 and the museum was right across the street so we decided we better go to the museum first.  At the museum we got to have a free audio guide and it talked about how the old museum used to be and old ranch house and stuff like that.  

  After the theater and the museum we got in the car and drove to a gorge that was free.  How it worked was there was a windy road that we road on and at a good point there would be a viewing point where you could look out.  

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Todays Activities

TODAY:

For starters i think by next week i will run out of titles for my blog posts😂.  Anyway today we went to a cave like spot and it was 56ºf.  Then there was lots of walls and there would be projectors everywhere and the images would project on these walls.  It was very cool!👍  There where 2 short films that where each projected on the walls... One of the films was about 3 very well known painters.  The next film was about fish and there would be fish all along the walls and in this room you did not sit, there where benches, but you could walk anywhere you like and it would project on the ceiling, floor, and walls.  There was also a theater where one sort film was playing and it was about a guy who got staged in the back by a statue and then became blind.  (it was not true) After the place that projected films we got back in the car and rode to the top of a mountain and took some pictures of the place we went to yesterday. (i will talk about yesterday later in the text).

YESTERDAY:

Yesterday we went to a old fortress but this fortress unlike the other ones is not full in the building part it is missing one side and all of the floors.  In the other parts it had fields with all of the weapons they used to protect their fortress.  We had an audio guide that told us what everything was and you could climb up to the top of the wall.

Climbing Up The Wall: 

To climb up the wall there where 2 staircases that you could chose from 1 was a little more steep and hard.  The other one was a little easier.  My dad took the harder staircase which me and my mom where surprised because both of his nees have been hurting really badly.  My mom took the slightly easier staircase because her shoulder has been bothering her.  I took the slightly easier staircase because of a little accident i had (i will tell you about it later).

Later Today:

Before we came back to our B+B we went to an olive oil place and we drove by it the first time and the gate was closed and the second time we by it the gate was open so we went in.  The woman said that they where not aloud to have guests at their place in the crushing season because the sound it too loud!  She told us the gate was open because her sister had just gone out and we drove by it right when it was open.  She told us she did not have a lot of time but she would tell us about the olives and the oil and about what she did an how to do it.  She also told us that her business was a family business and she worked with her parents and her sister.  She gave us 15-20 minutes of her time but she had to keep going back to the room where they where grinding to supervise the process.  We bought three things because we thought it was sweet that she gave us a lot of time.  

My Accident:

At the bottom of the building part it is a large hill/mountain and it is very rocky.  And i tripped on a rock and kind of twisted and it hurt my back so i was in a lot of pain.

[No Tittle Part 2]

Hey guys i know its not normal for me to write 2 days in a row but i am because i am bored!  So i just wanted to catch you up.  By the way i would call these posts "Catching Up" but that name is already taken on one of my other posts, so i name these "[No tittle]".  Anyway i just wanted to say on my last post lots of people* have been complaining that the link was not working... well great news i got it working, now it sends you straight to google maps and the area surrounded by red is where i am.

 *by lots of people i mean Dad and Audrey.

This is really clever, it is 3 walls and they are painted with part of the letters

A really old roman arena

Me in front of Vincent Van Gogh and his brother Theo's grave

The Hotel de Ville

A french bankers Maison

a church in the town just across from the Hotel de Ville

[No Tittle]

hey guys so its me again Joanie... sorry for the delay in posting i have been so busy and i have been traveling that i have not written on my blog in a wile...

Where We Are

https://www.google.fr/maps/place/Fontvieille/@43.7278457,4.6777319,13z/data=!3m1!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x12b5dfb5de497e57:0x1ef70cc6377a38ce

About Where We Are Staying

We are staying in a sort of B+B but it is like little houses all lined up.  Each little cottage has a number on the top and we are #1. Yay!  anyway each cottage has the following: ( each cottage has the same things on the same floors but not in the same place )

Main Floor:
- Kitchen
- cleaning closet
- living space (with TV)
- table

1st Floor:
- toilet
- bathroom (w/ shower and sink)
- 1st bedroom

2nd Floor:
- my bedroom (this bedroom is like a loft)

so that is the hole house... there is 1 set of keys that i get to hold.  On the keys there is a clicker for the driveways gate and a key for our front door.

please email me don't txt me.

my emails are:
joan.m.gaskins@gmail.com  (home)
gimmee12cookies@gmail.com  (work)
joanieg12@icloud.com  (other)

Volly-Ball

so as most of you know i started playing volly-ball and i really like it... so today i had practice* and when we got there my coach told my mom that the people who lock and unlock the building where on strike (it was not a huge surprise since the french are always putting on some sort of strike)

     sorry that i have not been posting in a wile i have just been really busy!

     so any way i hope to post soon a my coach told my mom that a should have practice tomorrow so that keep our fingers crossed!


*i have practice on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays