Day Two January 5th

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After a Tunisian breakfast in the hotel, we headed to the old medina. It was like in pictures that I had seen inmy Modern Middle East class at Rutgers. There were narrow streets lined with stalls where people tried all kinds of languages to get us to come in and buy their merchandise. They are clever, but I was not surprised. They get a lot of tourists every year, it's the biggest part of their economy. The tour was rushed, however, and with so many students, it was difficult to take it all in. We met some Tunisian students, near the Zaiytuna mosque, who were very nice but with whom I did not get many chances to speak. Lunch at the hotel was good. But it seemed to be filled with non-locals. The lecturer was very interesting, I'd like to find out more about topic, Tunisian women. After the lecture we headed out of the medina and walked along the Ave. Habib Bourghiba. Again, there wasn't really time to explore much, but I knew we would be returning. Dinner was in the hotel.

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