Hallo!
Ich bin nach wie vor dabei für meine Diplomarbeit alle Interviews, die ich in Fes gemacht habe, in den Computer zu tippen und arbeite heute am Interview mit einer jungen Amerikanerin, die in Fes ein Gästehaus eröffnen will. Ich fand sehr schön, was sie über die Medina sagt und denke, dass es Euch auch gefällt:

"In a way it´s unspoiled, because...I don´t know how to say this. You could imagine going to a place like this and it looks like a movie set. It looks like something maybe Walt Disney would create and at the end of the day all the people would go home and change into their real clothes. You know, put the donkeys away and get in their cars and drive away. But they don´t! They actually live like this. And it´s…it´s fascinating in that way and, I don´t know, there´s a real community feeling in the medina. All of our neighbours know us, all of our shopkeepers know us. And it takes a while, it takes about two months, but once you get a foot on the ground, you are really accepted. You are just part of the community and people take care of us and look after us and they always inquire how are we doing, how is the house…And that´s really impressive. And, I don´t know, there´s a…I think every tourist who comes, or traveller who comes to Fès feels it and it´s very difficult to come to put your finger on exactly what is special about. But it´s just amazing! It´s like stucking time - stucking time two hundreds years ago. And we have seen photos of Fès, taking in 20th century. It could have be…it could have been taken yesterday. Really, it looks exactly the same. People doing the same jobs in the same way. I think that´s fantastic! That they are so cut off from kind of the crazyness, saying…well, it´s London. In London you got to have the newest fashion, the newest telephone, the newest computer. You got to have the best job, you got to go to the trendiest bars. And this distrips all that away. There is no consumerism. There is, obviously, there are no bars. So, it really strips life back down to its real basics, so: food, shelter, community. And I think…I think a lot of people coming from big cities like London or saying New York, find that really refreshing. Just kind of: Ah! There´s a place on earth where, you know, your handbag doesn´t matter! Where, you know, your type of shoes...I have met a lot of friends coming down saying: Oh, I see exactly what you like about it, but I could never live here! I don´t know, I think people can! I mean, we spend the first two months thinking: I wish we had a Thai Restaurant, I wish we had a good bar, I wish we had a…whatever…a washing machine, because we are washing our clothes by hand, and then it gets the point where you know: Actually, we are doing ok like this. You began to redefine you definition of what I need to survive and what I want to survive. What you need is actually really minimal, really minimal!"