La Tetería Casablanca

 The trip to Albaycin was fun but the weather wasn't all that great. Callie and I walked at the end of the group so we could take pictures, and when I say we I mean mostly her but me just pointing out a couple things. I definitely will go back even if it's on my own. I don't mind walking on my own and having to find my way around. After walking all over and seeing an AMAZING view (which I promise to show you once I get pictures myself on a beautiful day).

 We ended up going into a Moroccan teteria which is where you drink tea. The guy came around and served the glasses to each of us. When he gave me mine, I said "saha" which is thank you and he replied but I have no idea how to spell it, something like "ahtik saha" which is your welcome. Maybe like 5 or 10 minutes later he came by again and and have us a pot if tea to refill if we wanted to and I said "labas" which is the popular Arabic for saying "how are you." And that's when he stopped and looked at me and started a little conversation with me and asked where I'm from. When he came by again I asked if he knows Berber but I used the Berber term for Berber. And he said yes. The thing with Berber is that although it's all considered to be Berber. There are different versions. I speak Kabyle also known as Taqvaylit. The guy said he knows Maghreb, which is a different version. There are some similarities but it's still different.

  Half of the group got up to leave and we were going to leave too until the guy who I want to say is the owner said that they had a special performance just for us (in reality he just found them on the street taking pictures for their new album). It was a girl who sings and a guy on a guitar. They did 3 songs for us and the girl was really good! Sucks for the people from our group who left because they missed out. After the 3 songs were done, the owner decided to sing something for us himself. After he finished I had the urge to tell "cheba" which means beautiful. Callie egged me on so I did. He was looking down and writing something when I yelled it. His head jerked up and he looked around trying to find who said it. So I repeated myself and he saw me. And then he was like "aaah" and then asked me where I'm from and what I'm doing with them. It was really funny. He actually sang a song and was going around pretending to sing the lyrics to the girls. He told me to get up dance because I'm Algerian and I know how. But I get nervous in front of people that I don't really know so I said no. When we left, I said bye and said thank you. It was raining when we left so we were ducking under coats and fitting 3 people to an umbrella. It was a fun day!