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| 23rd August 2008 Nancy | - From: Homecoming very nice. I hope you don't have to stop blogging now that you are back in the US. |
| 23rd August 2008 Uncle Jim | Welcome Home - From: Homecoming In a way I'm sorry to have you return, as we will miss your wonderful blogs. Please keep in touch. Best of luck with your job search, I hope you find something equally fulfilling. Carpe diem! (know you will, it's your nature) Love - Unc Jim & Aunt Bette |
| 22nd August 2008 Josh | I'll oblige ... - From: Homecoming Hey, to help overcome some of the things that you miss in Benin I'd wanted to let you know that I can certainly take a nap at the drop of a hat. So, maybe I'll head out to the Kraus homestead and take a siesta on the couch. Oh and I can also get offended every once in awhile if that helps too. Let me know :) It's good to have you back in the neighborhood that is NE Kansas. I was a little curious to know what Mathurin thought of the Kansas landscape. Did he see much prairie land or mostly the somewhat hilly area here around where we live? I guess you don't have to go very far to see it starting to open up ... even toward Melvern is opens up more. I thought I saw in a couple pictures some flat land there in Benin area. So, was this similar for him in some ways? Josh |
| 10th July 2008 Dan | - From: More Pictures Hey, always good to hear and read the occasional updates from you! Where are you off to next? |
| 18th June 2008 Nancy | - From: More Pictures I'm going to miss your pictures!! |
| 17th June 2008 c.green | quelles jolies photos - From: More Pictures have so enjoyed this travelblog during your time in Benin - merci! vraiment tu es une inspiration. bon retour! Christina |
| 8th April 2008 Nancy | - From: International Women's Day Tell Miminon that I think her orange dress looks really pretty on her. |
| 1st February 2008 Melinda Beach | Getting into your blog a bit late... - From: Someday Hello!! I received the link to your blog today and am so excited for all that you are doing! I have only made it part way through your postings but I am looking forward to getting to hear more about Africa. I pray that God will bless you and the people you meet during your time in Africa!! |
| 29th January 2008 Dad Kraus | Truly Benninese - From: For the Love of the Game Hi Erika, Good luck with the fund raising, we donated your christmas present!! You are truly becoming soooo Benninese I can hardly tell wich one is you in the pictures!! Love you much, Dad. |
| 29th January 2008 nancy | - From: A Time for Feasting Chicken head? I don't think i could do it. So...how many outfits do you have? I like the colors in the one you had made for the party. It reminds me a lot of peacocks. |
| 31st December 2007 Dad Kraus | You have made a difference! - From: A Caterpillar Named Laisa See Erika, you have made a difference!! How ever small, we can only hope the other villages near by will catch the spirit and modernize. Great job. Dad. |
| 31st December 2007 Dad Kraus | COLD Harmattan winds? - From: Hot Drinks at Nap Time The last time I was in Benin and experienced the cold Harmattan winds we were still able to swim in the ocean without shivering or having purple lips! I will send you some pictures of cold!! The most snow we have had in a very long time for December in the state of Kansas!!!Dad. |
| 21st December 2007 Greta | Awesome! - From: A Caterpillar Named Laisa Thats great Erika! I'm glad the trash pick up is starting to catch on! It sounds like you guys are really doing a lot of good for your town. You might even make a very 'progressive' town its citizens can be proud of! Yea to Mathurin for planting trees and shrubs in his school yard! Go Athieme!!! |
| 11th December 2007 Nancy | - From: Soothsayer Chocolate Today is blah day. Gray skies. Appreciate your non-gray winter sky. Rain. Sleet. Ice. Gross. Sent ya a letter today. Hope you get it by Christmas. |
| 11th December 2007 Aunt Donna | Falling Leaves vrs. Ice Storm - From: Soothsayer Chocolate We miss you!! Bob just ordered the MEAT for Christmas at Grandma's. A Midwest Ice/Winter Storm is settling in for the night/days???. Glad we have a small generator!!!! Love, Aunt Donna |
| 26th September 2007 Nancy | - From: The Mono River were you able to save the tree, or did it fall in? |
| 26th September 2007 Greta | Dork! - From: The Mono River You are a dork!!! Go live with the sisters! What are you doing staying in that house??? Now that you didn't get any sleep last night, you'll be too tired to tie yourself to you rafters and avoid the flood water. If it rises too high, will the piroque come pick you up inside the house? |
| 22nd September 2007 Nancy | - From: Bike Ride I think there is the same Flamboyant tree in Jamaica. In fact, it was blooming when i was there last (just in august). I asked Damon what it was called; he didn't know....not quite the help I wanted:). haha P.S. I don't think you are supposed to mention the skinny dipping part on the internet. ;) |
| 22nd September 2007 Dad Kraus | OH-BOY - M&M'S - From: Kate and Tina I'm not so sure why the picture of the M&M's are there, except that the only way you have them is when someone sends them to you, and usually they are a melted glump when they get to you, being as how you are next to the equator and all. One would thnik that flying at an altitude of 1500 feet or more the M&M's would be in better shape when they get to you, but I would suppose the slow local traffic is where they collect the heat. I only remember you licking the choclate off of every wrapper every time you ate chocolate from the stuff we brought on our visit. |
| 21st September 2007 Amy Catbagan | Tina the nose picker - From: Kate and Tina Is Tina picking her nose in that last one?! It wouldn't surprise me as we all know what a nose picker she is :-) |
| 14th September 2007 Dad Kraus | Trash Service - No Kidding!!?? - From: More Pictures I have visited Athieme, Benin. I can see why you are excited about a tractor that hauls trash. It is only the second tractor I have seen during and since my visit! I hope the service expands at a rapid rate. Athieme would be sooo much prettier with a little cleaning up! It is such a wonderful farming community, with lots of folks with lots of big smiles. By the way where are the HIPPOPOTAMUSES, I would suppose a close up would be regretable!! |
| 28th August 2007 Daphne McConnell | where are the hippos? - From: More Pictures Where are these hippopotami? musses? see, I can't spell either, that you speak of? I reckon you don't get too close to a hippo, do you? |
| 28th August 2007 Daphne McConnell | beautiful pictures! - From: More Pictures Erika: Beautiful pictures! I have so enjoyed your journals and pictures. Hard to believe you've been there two years already! Hope all is well and I'll be happy to write you any wonga-woman recommendations you need when you decide what to do when you return home! When do you get back? I know you signed on for an additional 6 months. If you were coming back before January, you could come replace me while I'm on sabbatical! DM |
| 12th May 2007 Dad Kraus | Wish I were there - From: On With Life I visited for only two weeks and know full well how good of friends you have and how the simple life such as theirs can be so alluring. We had so much fun visiting the villages and meeting your friends. I wish we could come back for Christmas 07 only this time take the camera to midnight mass! |
| 3rd May 2007 Stephanie | Hi Erika - From: On With Life It's nice reading your thoughts |
| 1st May 2007 Nancy | un petit chou-chou - From: What You Have Not Seen that's what my french teacher always said was an affectionate term(like for a gf.bf)... i think she said it meant my a little cabbage head...but who really knows ( i guess i could look it up). Anyway, jsut thought i would let you know I really enjoy cabbage now too. I'm glad i have someone to share my love for cabbage. |
| 1st May 2007 Nancy | - From: Welcome to the Elements I've read this one before;). Nice. |
| 24th February 2007 Cindy and Jeff | Erika the... - From: Of the Near Future Erika - strange.....no! Erika - adventurer, Erika - leader, Erika - humorist, Erika - writer, Erika - charismatic, Erika - loving, and we could go on. We think that you are pretty special! |
| 14th February 2007 Lana | oh the memories! - From: Bonne Fete I think reading this blog was more emotional than saying goodbye! Not only can I not wait for you to return home, I can not wait to return to africa. I love your home, your friends, your pseudo family. You are so special, I am so proud you are my sister. |
| 13th February 2007 Lana | such a writter! - From: RESOLUTIONS can I steal this for my poetry class? lol I like what is written, though it is a little sad. as nancy says, "be happy for this moment, for this moment is your life". Love you erika. |
| 17th January 2007 mom | the whole truth! - From: Bonne Fete I have to object to your caption of the four of us in the back seat. What time amount is "not very long" to you?:) Actually I loved the experience! You also should have told the gun story! You are making me sound like I'm making a mountain our of a molehill! I also object to the sleeping picture! Just wait till I catch you sawing logs some day! I absolutely love your summary, Erika. You summed it up the way it was supposed to be! Love you! |
| 17th January 2007 mom | again? - From: How to Spend a Long Weekend in Cotonou You didn't tell me that you fainted again! |
| 16th January 2007 Nancy Jo | - From: How to Spend a Long Weekend in Cotonou I loved all three of your blogs. I think i should win some money. I would come visit you right away. I'm soooo jealous of your family, but also so very happy for them. Talk to you soon! |
| 2nd December 2006 mom | nightmare field trip - From: On a Bench Beneath a Terminalia Tree Every time I get ready for a field trip, I have a nightmare kind of like you were describing. The worst possible scenerio comes to pass. I'm glad yours was short-lived! I'm sure Patrice appreciates your company. You are a talking,walking sprinkler system! Can't beat that! Love you! |
| 2nd December 2006 Nancy and Kate | coachable, eh? - From: On a Bench Beneath a Terminalia Tree Erika, We can't imagine you being a non coachable person....afterall you always do what people tell you.... a very funny story. We also wanted to be just like you....we don't have electricity, none at all, it' also 22 degrees F. here. We are staying in a hotel for the night. A very crappy ice storm took our power, as well as another 400,000 persons in st. louis. Fun winter storms. We miss ya. |
| 1st December 2006 Greta | Predator Tag - From: On a Bench Beneath a Terminalia Tree Predator tag sounds like a really good idea! You are a great teacher! Plus you have wonderful kids to teach, so I'm sure that helps. I just mailed you a letter today! |
| 8th November 2006 Nettie | be still - From: Writer's Block Oh, Erica, this one should be published. I love the title, hinting at something lacking, and then the bounty of what you write!! I hope you can keep this feeling when you come back to this crazy world! Love You. |
| 29th October 2006 Cindy Stuart | Loving to live - From: Writer's Block Your blog was inspiring. That constant pressure of too much to do, stress, hurry seem to be absent in your present environment. You are rich! Love you. |
| 24th October 2006 nancy | - From: Writer's Block just wanted to let you know i read, and i'll try calling soon.:) |
| 24th October 2006 Greta | You poor thing! - From: The Worst Day Ever I remember the emails you sent on your bad day. yuck. I wish you could have found some of that chocolate fan. But the doggies are cute! So are the neighbor girls! Bubbi is getting big! |
| 30th September 2006 Nancy | - From: Le Petit Four, 16 Septembre, 2006 I read them all, and enjoyed! |
| 19th September 2006 Lana | - From: Excerpts from June erika, i didn't think you ever needed to LEARN how to be late! |
| 19th September 2006 Lana | my reason for a visit - From: Pardon You have no idea how bad i want $11 prada jeans....oh and I can't wait to see you either! p.s. your mean face is as funny as mom's. I just can't help but laugh! |
| 5th September 2006 Donna | One Week - From: One Week in Another Part of the World Absolutely gorgeous!!! I know that Greta and your Dad are there now...Hope all goes well!!! |
| 30th August 2006 Dad Kraus | Pictue review - From: One Week in Another Part of the World Good pictures Erika!!! But how come the teeter toters more in your direction? And your telling your friend to lean? Backwards or what? I can see that I have taught you well on the trick photography concerned with climbing and making it look good, but those pictures look more like the Flint Hills or Missouri River bluffs rather than Grand Tetons. I know we have traversed hills that big right here in Osage County hunting quail!!! But you did make it look goood though!!! Love ya much, Dad |
| 28th August 2006 mom | great pictures! - From: One Week in Another Part of the World You gave a very good description of your trip. Is this the same area that Dad and Greta will get to see when you go to the conference up north? You are remembering to be careful, right? |
| 28th August 2006 Nancy | Jealous! - From: One Week in Another Part of the World I'm so jealous you got to go to the mountains, and see the monkeys! Sounds like your doing well! |
| 28th August 2006 Greta | - From: One Week in Another Part of the World It looks really pretty! Woohoo! Is this what I get to see when I visit the north with you?!?!?!?!? |
| 22nd August 2006 Greta | - From: Camp GLOW These girls are adorable!! I bet they had so much fun! What lucky girls to get to vacation and learn new things. |
| 18th August 2006 Nancy | - From: Excerpts from June, Continued Thanks for the shout-out! Also, i'm sure that mine and Kate's haircutting skills would not have scared you. I promise;). |