A dream and a trip

February 12, 2006  ::  03:36 PM

A few nights ago I had one of the best dreams ever. I was engaging in a rap battle with French middle school students, but I was from the future…or just the U.S. Either way I decided to use Kayne West’s song “Jesus Walks” as my own and win the battle, these kids wouldn’t know it was a real song. So I was performing when out in the audience I noticed two rabbis and then I realized I was in a synagogue in Squirrel Hill, my very Jewish Pittsburgh neighborhood, performing “Jesus Walks.” The rabbis just sort of shook there head as if to say, “Jesus doesn’t walk here, sister.” Then I left the stage abruptly and went home.

Tomorrow I am flying from Brussels to Casablanca where I will be picked up by Andrea and trained to her apartment in Rabat. For the next two weeks I will explore the wonders of Morocco from Marrakech to the Sahara desert to the coast from where you can see Spain in the distance. I am wildly excited to travel to a country outside of Europe for the first time. Not that I haven’t enjoyed my European adventures, I have so very much, I am just also looking forward to experiencing a country and culture that is much more different than my own. I will take many photos as I have promised many people. I might ride a camel or at the least see or touch one, maybe poke their hump? Anything goes.