Anxiously Awaiting Tomorrow

I know I already posted today but then more important things that pertained more to walkabout happened, (I also thought it might help turn my blog back into a walkabout blog).
So a couple hours after my last post I finally had a full conversation about Morocco with my mom. I told her that tomorrow I was going to present my proposal to a committee to hopefully get some funding and asked her whether or not my proposal is "doable". She told me that to go through with my walkabout financially there would have to be alot of sacrifices, I (or she more like it) would be "putting all of her eggs in one basket". She conveyed to me her uncertainty about the program and how I'm going into this somewhat blindly (or blinded by the glossy photos and brochures of smiling African children and wise Peruvian women). So in a half hour she brought up many issues and valid questions that I hadn't even considered previously...

1. Are there any local affiliates that we can talk to about their personal experience with CCS, specially Morocco or otherwise?
2. Would a hijab be a required part of my attire?
3. What would by CCS volunteer community be like? Is community encouraged through activities and such or is everyone pretty much independent of each other?
4. What are race issues in Northern Africa?

In the end she said that having the traveling expenses paid for would be a huge burden lifted. She didn't give me the money marker between "doable" and "sacrifice" (did I mention that my mom hates talking about money and enjoys being as vague as possible) but at least I have a pretty definite (although not expressed verbally) "I need someone else to pay for your plane ticket to be able to afford this" but I have to be careful not to assume that this means that she can pay for the program fee.
I was online looking for the answers to some of the questions raised during our conversation when I found out that (on their website at least) the Morocco trip that I was planning for has been blocked out. I'm not sure what their procedure for the discontinuation of trip advertising is, does this mean that this trip is full or did they just stop advertising because they assumed anyone who would want the May 3rd trip would have contacted a representative by now? I'm anxiously awaiting 9:00 tomorrow so I can talk to a representative. If I can't go to Morocco I'll be really disappointed but not crushed. I can have such a great experience and have so many questions answered. However although not as exotic as Morocco St. Croix is really a pretty good alternative. I mean a West-Indian accent is as close to another language as you can get without assigning gender to nouns. And although I had hoped to connect my 3rd quarter walkabout to my 4th with the use of French in Morocco, the significance of genealogy research and cultural immersion in St Croix would be to help establish some kind of cultural identity before going off to college.

Anyway tomorrow everything will be decided and I'll finally have a definite walkabout, which be it Morocco or St. Croix I am really excited about!

Until next time...