Every building in the poorer, desert areas of Morocco is made of these simple mud and straw bricks. When it rains, the bricks melt and the buildings have to be built back up.
You know that surreal, out of body feeling you get when you're lying in your hotel room with severe stomach cramps as some Nile river worm makes it's way through your lower intestines, and you look out the window to discover the building next door has burst into flames? See, I knew you would know that feeling. We just get each other. We do.