Okay, it wasn't actually Afghanistan but it looked exactly like it because I was on the movie set of "Rock the Kasbah" the new Bill Murray film. Because it is too dangerous to actually film in Kabul (who'd a thought?) the movie transformed one of Rabat's streets to look like Afghanistan. It just so happens that that street was where one of my friends from the program lived, so a few of us decided to go visit the set during our lunch break. After standing around on the street for long enough, an assistant director approached us, presumably to tell us to move out of his shot. After discovering that we were American however, he started a conversation with us about why we were in Rabat, where we were from, ect. His name was William Paul Clark, later introduced to is as Quentin Taratino's right hand man, was so overjoyed to see other Americans to speak with that he baptized us his "American Possy." He invited us to watch the filming and when we asked him where we should go to warh he said, "Well the best view is from behind the camera!" We watched them film background scenes until it was time for us to return to school. We went to say our goodbyes but instead Bill Clark had us write down our names and said, "See you after class!"
We obviously returned after class to watch more filming from our VIP view behind the camera, but this time we weren't watching the extras. Instead we were watching Bill Murray and Zooey Deschanel shoot her last scene of the movie! After the scene was finished everyone surrounded her and applauded, and then something amazing happened: the group of American students was introduced to Bill Murray as the "American Possy." (!!!!!!!!) 
You could say that meeting Bill Murray was quite the Cinderella story, and I'm sure if we had had a crowd watching they would have gone wild.
Names of other people we met: Lenny Kravitz, Sean Bobbit, Barry Levinson. Look them up, they are all amazing.
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