Book: The Count Of Monte Cristo
Song: Ball and Biscuit, White Stripes
Yeah, yeasterday I sworn in and am now officialy a volunteer in Crorps de la Paix. We had a small ceremony at teh house of the US Ambassador. It was nice and they televised the entire ceremony on National television. I have already had people coming up to me and telling me that they saw me on teh tele. It is even funnier because there are only 9 channels and we were on the first channel which 80% of the country leaves their tele on. I am a celebrety now. On a more seriouse note, I leave tommorow for St. Louie and then Dagana. I am leaving all 39 people behind. After this week I will have to ride my bike 20 K on through the desert inorder to speak with some one in English. At this point I can only laugh and say that I will be in good shape by the end of two years. i have already lost 12 lbs and am starting to thin out a little. My family eqats well in teh North from what I hear but the volunteer befor me lost 20 lbs at site in two years. I am getting a little nervouse also because my family only speaks Wolof and all I speak is bad French. I get to be a baby that is contious of his world. It will be a good experience and I look forward to taking it all in and having this experience. I don't know when I will be able to write again because my site might not have Internet, but when I figure it out i will drop u all a line.
Love Josh
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I hope your stay in Dagana goes well. Can we still mail you packages in the address you have in Facebook?
PS: Illinois beat OSU in last saturday's game. Michigan lost against Wisconsin. Lets hope we can take down OSU.
Hi Josh,
It was great to meet you while I was in Dagana. Sorry we didn't hook up again but the time was so short to catch up on four years. Luckily some google searches led me to your blog. I wish you the best of luck in your service and hope you enjoy your time as much as I did.
If you'd like to keep in touch or ask me any questions about my projects and people I worked with - feel free to send me an email. Erika R Miller (periods between all) at gmail.
Jamm ak khewel!
Erika
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