What About The Children?

There are lots of children in Essaouira. They all play together. The girls have a game where they take bits of elastic string and tie them into a loop about 8-10 feet in diameter. They hook one end on a wall and the other end gets wrapped around the legs of a girl forming a sort of triangle. Then the other girls jump around in and out--very similar to the way people do jump rope. They are also out in force at the beach where the boys play in the water--especially at high tide. They are, of course, kicking soccer balls around all the time. Soccer is big in Africa--where they mistakenly call it football.