Final Day in Morocco

So I leave for the airport in a little over an hour.
And I absolutely cannot believe it.

There have been plenty of wonderful and exciting things that have happened in the past couple weeks which haven't made it onto the blog, but the outline of what Ill backlog later is:

Assilah
Tangier
Ferry to Algiceras
Madrid
Barcelona
Back to Morocco

This experience has been amazing and I am so grateful for all the people who encouraged and inspired me to come here. I am not particularly sorry to leave Morocco (the intolerance toward Westerners has become unbearable for me to handle recently, especially the nastiness with which many people - mostly men - treat Western women), but I am thankful for all it has taught me.

As you may or may not know I was very ill when I arrived here - not physically so, but spiritually and mentally. Having struggled with eating disorders for some time and the stress of having to start my 'real life' after graduating from college left me very unhappy and lost. Some of you may be surprised to hear these things, and I urge you to please trust that I am ok now, or at least headed in that direction thanks to a lot of great people and some tremendous gaining of persepctive. Im not sure why I feel the need to broadcast that information on here...maybe because I want to make it clear that as much as my purpose here was to help others, I've helped myself in ways I could not have discovered otherwise.

I will be back in Texas tomorrow afternoon, enjoying Mexican food by tomorrow night. Thank God it will be Christmas time. I can't think of a better time of year to reintroduce myself to all things Western.