前途: A Year in Morocco

Although I’ve been done officially teaching since the beginning of June, today is technically my last day as an official Fulbright ETA, as well as my 10 month anniversary with Morocco en general.

I feel like I’m on a roller coaster: I’m anxious to return to the Glorious Homeland and see friends, and am especially excited to start moving my career forward. For those of you not already in the know, I have signed up for a TEFL certification class in Seattle. It starts in September, and I will complete that while working and looking for another position teaching English overseas.

I’m also entertaining a lot of doubts about how easy it will be to re-adjust and about how much I’m going to miss the ease of life in Morocco. I wonder about how many “salaam aleikum’s” will slip out of my mouth and how strange my friends will find it when I ask them repeatedly how they are doing. I will miss Friday couscous, trains, hanging out in cafés, last minute plans, and reposing on couches.

I’ll be in Morocco for a little over two more weeks, insha’allah. I have friends to visit, books to finish and return to the MACECE library, last minute souvenirs to buy, an apartment to set in order for my lovely successor, too much stuff to pack, my final hammam/couscous/henna rituals to undertake, and goodbyes, large and small, to make to the people who have been at the center of my Fulbright experience.

I’ll probably get home to Seattle and sleep for about a day.