Dear Mom,

Well I'm still in North Africa but in a different part this time. You use to read an awful lot about this place in the papers. In fact right up until the very end of the fighting. We got to go into town last night and what an experience. The people are mostly French with a fair amount of Arabs. About the first thing I noticed in town was the taxi cabs. They were these two-wheeled carts pulled by a horse and the horses would prance all over the streets like they were in a circus. The street cars were little white cars about 1/3 as large as ours back home. Only they attach two or three together so they look like little trains. They are all packed with people - they're always hanging on the last step. Because of all the horses the town has a slight scent to it - something like the stockyards in Chicago only a little worse. The Arab women are just like in the movies, they cover their faces and they wear white sheets. The men wear colored robes with red fez caps. All the buildings are made of stone or cement or maybe it's just plaster covered stuff - it looks like cement though. Every house has a little porch or balcony in front and most of the building in town are four stories high. It was really quite interesting to see. Well I have to close for now, so will write more later.

Love,
Rae