PreTrip - Medersa Ben Youssef Museum

The Ben Yousef museum is well worth a visit if you are Marrakech. This museum was orignally a school to team the Qur'an (had to look that one up to know how to spell it since I was sure the Americanized version (Koran) was completely wrong. It was.) to Islamic children several hundred years ago, who's great great great great grandchildren probably have the same love/hate relationship with Americans too. They love us because we're rich, and hate us because we're rich. Hopefully the extremists ain't out to go and kill whitey! This lady was cleaning this place. I didn't see any dirt, but I guess she found some, cause she was scrubbing like there was no tomorrow. I was quite amazed since I've never cleaned (and the Mrs would agree) anything in my life.
View of the pool and courtyard.
Peek a Boo. A funky door.

This was one of the "teachers" rooms. Looks like my first apartment when I lived in Los Angeles and made a gargantuan 26K a year. I was so money....Oh anyway, compared to what the student dungeons, let me tell you, this was a palace. The window overlooked the courtyard.
Another photo shot of the courtyard...

Here is an excellent example of the type of tilework common to Morocco. If you stare @ it long enough, I'm sure you'll go mad. Seemed very similar to a mandala created by Tibetan monks. Those guys will just sit for hours creating those things, then let them blow away in the wind. How would that be, to work hours on something to let it all just go away? How could you do that, I wonder about......Ah, see, I just proved my point.