The mystery of the missing students: All about money?

As predicted, the students didn't show today for classes. Technically it's only the second years who are supposed to haze the first years, but 1) it must be so much fun to haze the newbies and 2) the format for classes is yielding enough that none of my students decided to make it today. One of the profs suggested that it's because the Moroccan system doesn't force them to pay tuition, so students don't feel invested like they do in the United States, for example.
Class meeting times are modified during Ramadan (we start later in the day, and move up afternoon classes since there's no lunch break to take). Neither the 3rd years scheduled to meet me at 9:00 nor the 2nd years scheduled to meet at 1:00 made it. Out of roughly 100 students on the lists, not one showed up.
My 1:00 class will meet again tomorrow, so I'll try it again then. I don't have any other classes the rest of the week, and the following week is a holiday for all. In short, if we don't go tomorrow, I won't have any chances of meeting any students before October 6.
As a high point to the day, my phone came back on, my landlady called to say hello, and promptly called the plumber when I told her about my water heater. Hassan the plumber is due at my apartment tonight at 7:30 to show me how to light the pilot light (and I'm going to see if he can work on the toilet while he's at it, insh'Allah).