As finals are approaching, my last assignment for my travel writing class has required me to find a picture of somewhere I am going in Morocco and what I am envisioning and expecting of this destination. My professor suggested that we chose a picture that "speaks to us" and embodies why we wanted to go to Morocco. I personally think this picture had some pretty big shoes to fill and it became quite hard to pick a single picture. There are so many different parts of Morocco I am excited to see and experience; such as wandering through the Medina, camping out in the Sahara desert, to seeing the ruins of volubilis. And being the indecisive person I am I just had to basically do the eeny meeny miny mo trick and go with a picture of the Medina in Fez. The small maze like streets and countless Moroccan people that make the Medina their second home seems so quintessential Moroccan to me. And it is furthermore a place where I can not wait to interact with local people and attempt to bargain for that one thing I just have to have. And so may of the travel pieces I have read in class have focused on this location and its unique and exotic nature which tells me that there must be something about it that can "speak" to so many different kinds of people . Even though I am excited to visit so many different places I am most anxious to see if the Medina lives up to the ideas that so many travel pieces have painted for me.
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