Quarantine Morocco

One month far in quarantine, so yes i already made it halfway. One more month to go, that is nothing in a lifetime. So far my positivity because realistic it will be more than that for me.

I have been here in Morocco since mid january and i am loving it. I live in a small surf town "Taghazout" in the state Souss-Massa. Volunteering in a surfcamp as a receptionist. Living close to the waves and taking the boards out. Every day there are waves here especially in winter. But it doesn't feel like winter here, temperatures are always between 20-30 degrees. Although it cools of at night. Living the dream is what most people would say, i just call it my life and a choice.

Now, I normally stay around 3 months in one place and at the end of February i started looking for a new place. As some people may know, i tried to stay before in Sagres (Algarve, Portugal) and i had found a volunteering place over there now, in a great hostel where i used to stay when i was there (The lighthouse hostel). I was ready for a change and had bought my flight to Portugal to start there on the 1st of April. Few days later and the coronavirus suddenly started to look much more like a problem for the world. Morocco at that point having almost no cases closed their borders with Spain, next day with France, and before i knew it all well Morocco had closed all their borders.

All good was my thought, i just stay here until everything is done, maximum a month or 2 and everything will be okay. Now, I already know better. We are 5 weeks further and been 4 weeks in state of emergency here in Morocco. What means I haven't left the house in a month and they just added another month to it. I completely understand that they do it but if i look at the amount of cases of the state where I live in Morocco and compare that to any country in Europe and see what the people can do in those countries then it is just unbelievable

Sous Massa: 51.642 km²

population: 2,677 million

cases: 44

44 Cases since the beginning of March, if this was in any other country, they would probably just go on with life. I know they haven't test that much in Morocco and they start testing much more now, but it doesn't look that it is that much spread out in this area. The virus is mostly in the bigger cities in the north. I will follow the rules but it is hard because you know there are places in the world that are doing much worse but they still have some kind of freedom or they are already opening places again. I just wish they looked at this state by state but it is what it is.

It is not that my situation is bad here, not all i am staying in the camp where i was volunteering. Get the best food ever every day, can lay on the rooftop in the nice sunny weather but i am missing my freedom. It is about the worst thing you can take away from me. Luckily i can keep myself busy with pictures from more than 4 years travelling, write some stuff, do some drawing, watch some tv-shows, learn some Spanish and I just started with a 21day meditation challenge. So, yeah enough stuff to do and then there is ramadan that is going to start too, what i will join too. Because, why not?

The worst thing is that when everything is finished here and when i finally be able to go back to Belgium (Because Morocco will only let me go back to Belgium probably) . I will need to go another 2 weeks in quarantine and because Belgium is about the worst country in the world. There will be probably no country that allow any Belgians in their country this summer and if they do, I will probably have another 2 weeks that I have to do quarantine. So my near future looks quite quarantinish.

So please Morocco, the only thing i want to do is take my surfboard out. Paddle and surf, paddle and surf, ...i am not asking much i just want to be able to stretch my legs a bit and enjoy the nature. Please, because end of May there are probably no more waves left.