When I moved to the apartment on Ave. des FAR in May, I was fortunate enough to be blessed with this gorgeous bathtub (cat not included). Not only is it a clean, full-sized tub, but it also has a handheld shower that also hooks up to the wall for a stand-up shower…a rarity in Morocco, indeed.

So you can imagine my surprise the first time I showered standing up and realized that I’d gotten water all over the floor.

See that structure in the bottom left of the photograph? That’s a marble shelf and cabinet - while lovely, it makes it nearly impossible to hang a shower curtain in our tub with a normal rod, as the ones found at Marjane do not extend as far as the wall at the end of that cabinet. Our only option, it seems, would be to build a curved rod and buy two shower curtains to cover it.

So how do we get the water out of the bathroom? Moroccan-style! We take our enormous squeegee, the staple of any Moroccan apartment, and move the water from the bathroom to the hallway, from the hallway to the kitchen, from the kitchen to the laundry room, and down the drain. Around three corners. And we do this every, single day.

If anyone has a solution, please let us know! If you’re a carpenter or just pity us…well, come on by.