A Traveler's Paradise Imagined

Any day now, I am expecting to receive my official invitation to Morocco for the Peace Corps. The anticipation is building! With every breath, movement, and action, I feel like I am preparing to go to Morocco. I have read books, watched a presentation, and imagined how it will feel to know that my plane's wheels have landed on Moroccan ground. I imagine walking into the airport in Rabat and feeling curious gazes splashing on me like cool water because I am someone new to their corner of the earth. I also imagine walking beneath the palm trees with other Americans, imagining further still into the future to when I will feel more at home in this country. I wonder whom my host family will be and where their pasts have journeyed. To me, even this imagining is a rich part of what my future will bring. For now, I have only these dreams and a wanderlust for the unknown.