MTV Cribs - Broke Teacher Edition

Hello and welcome to the broke teacher edition of MTV Cribs. As the weather is preventing me from going out and doing anything productive today, I figured I'd give you a brief overview of my life and living situation in Rabat. I know you've been waiting with baited breath for pictures of my living room. 

For starters, this is the couch I crashed on for almost a whole month, before I could find an apartment. A special shout out to Anna and Lynne, my wonderful coworkers, for allowing me to invade their living room for so long. I would've been homeless without them. Also, look how awesome my blanket is! It's like someone skinned cookie monster. Goes perfectly with my beloved and incredibly unflattering cookie monster pajamas.

Thankfully, with an amazing amount of help from another, equally lovely coworker, I found (or rather, he found, I just stood there and looked pretty) the apartment I'm writing in right now. It's kinda weirdly laid out and the floor is impossible to keep clean (I'm relatively sure that there's some kind of dust fairy that's hard at work every time I'm not looking), there's almost no hot water and my shower has exploded (literally exploded!) a couple of times, but with Riley it's pretty close to home.

This was taken the first day I moved in. Obviously it hasn't been this tidy since. I truly hate the colour of the sofas, and as it's a furnished apartment, take no responsibility for the design choices. However, this is fortunately the least ostentatiously furnished Moroccan apartment I've seen. I should be thankful that the couch isn't metallic pink with rhinestones on it. Seriously, that's a thing here. For example, this is the actual design on my bathroom floor:

It looks like it was designed by a 7 year old girl whose parents work for Hallmark. Do I look like someone who would appreciate a Valentine's Day explosion in my bathroom?

Anyway, let us adjourn to the bedroom...

(Note the prominently displayed hide of cookie monster...)

(...and the pictures of the many people I know, love, and miss terribly. It continues on the other side.)

So between teaching...

...lesson planning (or trying to)...

...and having inane conversations with my cat (which takes up most of my time)...

...that's about all there is. 

I suppose I do go on the occasional field trip...

(Yes. This is a MacDonald's. No. I was surprisingly not brought in by force.)

(Boat ride in Salé, in case anyone was wondering)

...but I generally forget to bring a camera, so I rarely have anything to show you. I have a vacation coming up soon, and despite a decided lack of funds, perhaps I'll go somewhere fun and photogenic. And who knows,  maybe I'll even sort through my Christmas pictures and share some of them with you sometime before Easter.