I am so proud of you - and envious! Hi Wendy,
I found your blog a bit ago. I heard you had made a major life choice by going to Africa to teach. How amazing! I hope to see you again when you arrive back in Anchorage:)
Robin
Welcome home! I know you will be glad to return to Alaska -- prepare yourself -- has been below zero already this winter, but due to warm by this coming weekend. You will be arriving just as I am leaving -- I want to hear about your journey. I think this adventure has been fabulous for you -- as it would be for all teachers. I have truly enjoyed your blog -- found it interesting and insightful; I have learned much from them. Take care and Happy Holidays upon your return.
Deborah
Safe Travels! Hi Wendy,
Have a safe journey home. It will be great to see you in person and hear more about your adventures! Being bitten by the travel bug is a very good thing!
Love,
Mary
Meals on Wings Wendy-- Amazing story to end your blogs. How did they taste? Welcome back to food additives with long chemical names. Loved all your blogs--have a safe trip home--so look forward to seeing you!
amazing wendy Wendy, I loved your description of the flying worms (soon to be fried chips). We've missed you but have also so appreciated that you took the time to keep us informed and entertained with this wonderful blog. I can't wait to hear about your next adventure. Until then, safe travels.
Congratulations! Wendy, congratulations on your class winning the science award, and for a successful year in Namibia. That us quite an accomplishment! I know you are coming home to us a different person than the one who left. What life-changing experiences you've had!
When do you arrive in Anchorage? I leave for Nepal on Jan. 6th., returning Feb. 22.
Travel safely. Love, Jay
OMG!!! I can't believe you'll be home soon!!! Your kids must have been very sad to say goodbye to you, W!! But we will all be very glad to say hello & to welcome you home
Blog experience Hi Wendy
This year of your entires remains my only-ever blog experience, which I have thoroughly enjoyed. I will miss them. I hope when you return you will send a few more about your re-entry experiences, which I expect will be surprising in many ways, both to you and to those of us who haven't been out of the country for a year. Wonderful that you'll soon be back for more of your granddaughter's early years. I look forward to hearing more in person one day. Thank you!
Terry
you could always visit there again, yes?
Maybe with your own film and stage crew?
If you come home via Seattle and want to visit Whidbey, let me know. Or if later on you just want to visit, then too. And maybe we'll see you in the north one day God willin' and the creeks don't rise.
Yours has been a quiet epic and a beautiful chapter in a lovely life; how good for all of us, not least yourself, and for all the kids who behold and learn from your simply being who you are. Namastatcha!
Travel Well!
Namaste from Jay Hi Wendy! Wonderful update. I completely understand your mixed feelings over leaving and excitement to be home again. I can't wait to see you and hear more! Of course you are not the same Wendy that left us a year ago. You will have changed and grown in so many ways. I wonder how anchorage will look to you through your new eyes.
Kathy & Alan McArthur (she taught PE at BHS) gave a restaurant-style seating for a 7-course traditional Nepali dinner in their home, seating 34 in their living room. Won't go into all the details here, but we hoped to raise $1000 for the HHN Medical Emergency Endowment, and ended up getting $4700 in donations! HHN also participated for the first time in the annual Holiday Food and Gift Festival at the Dena'ina Center, again with all donations going to the HHN Medical Emergency Endowment. Must say it was quite an experience. HHN will have a table again at the annual Mitzvah Mall at Congregation Beth Shalom ($14/solar lamp for students, $20/day in NICU for newborn, $50/scholarship for a year). And we will participate in a First Friday event (Dec. 6) at both ZoeZ Window Gallery and aurora Fine Art Gallery. We will have a table with Nepali-made items for a donation: embroidered purses in 2 sizes, brocade zippered bags with lemon tea in two sizes, and 3 different cashmere items.
I spoke at Highland Technical HS Thurs. last week. I hope to apply and be accepted by a Speakers Bureau. We'll see what happens.
Travel safely, Wendy. when do you arrive Anchorage? All the best, Jay
PS This Thanksgiving I am thankful you have had this great year/experience in Namibia, and that Namibia has had the gift of our Wendy.
finishing so soon? dear wendy,
no hat!?!?!? yikes!!! i'm glad you didn't die from exposure, heat exhaustion, or lighting strike. you had your chances and i'm glad you got away with your skin. okavango is so peaceful. your notes took me right back there in the mokoros (sp?). wow. what a time you have had. i'm glad to hear that your friends were able to join you for the play and all.
oh, and here's a cheer for the duck tape. i always travel with some wound round a pencil (takes less space) but you probably needed the better part of a roll for the play. good for nikki to think of that.
enjoy.... savor... these last few weeks. remember everything and tell me about it when i see you.
wow. congratulations on the adventure of a lifetime. wow!
love,
margi
I am glad you learned to love my favourite countrie, Wendy. All this elegant and beautiful animals and these friendly people. Let me know when you are back home!
I will be in town :) Hi Wendy,
I found your blog :) I see you will be back in Dec. I plan to stick around this winter...I would love to get together with you!
The theme of bewitchment reminds me of the evenings in the living room with your Dad talking Jung, and then of his hejira to Cochise County. I suppose by virtue of having all that in the family DNA, you're as well prepared for the work as anyone who hasn't had formal shaman training. In fact, as unfamiliar as it seems, it must be at work all over the country even if your area is the most notably traditional. For that matter, and in who knows what forms, it probably is all over everywhere. Was it scary for you? Or is your sense of self and reality untouched by the frisson of hysteria. I'm not sure I'd be impervious. In any case, I'll probably be more interested in the chool magazine when it comes out. And I look forward to having you back on North America. Will you pass through the Seattle area?: we'll be glad to see you. Otherwise, Greta and I are talking (as we often do) about when we might see Alaska--she's never been, and I am always attracted. Be well and enjoy summer in the south!
magazine You don't need to say, "although we will print it here," I don't think. I went to the Scripps event last Sunday, and was wowed by the books published by the art press at Scripps. Kitty said she gives the students (from all colleges) a theme, and they spend a month or so researching, then planning, then they 'manufacture' the entire book. You can see them on the Scripps website, which I'll look up, but I did sign up to be a 'patron' and receive one (at a 20% discount) at the end of the year. Actually, they do one each semester. Some are more words, and some more pictures. There is one called Line, Area, and Volume, and another focused on music. The one from 1992 was my favorite - tiny and fitted into a little case. Oops, I think I hear Guillaume. I better go fix his bottle
thinking of you Wendy,
sometimes at work I remember to read your blog. I think Africa looks beautiful and exotic! But from reading your posts...the teaching you are doing is rewarding for you and fun for the students. If/when you return...many will be very, very glad to see you.....but part of your heart will stay at the school there. Hopefully....your friends here will understand. Fondly--and with respect...Louise
Hi Wendy Sorry I haven't written, but I've been busy for the past 6 months writing a health/safety curriculum in German for grades K - 3. School going well - we have 425 kids this year,packed in like sardines. I'm on the lecture circuit doing workshops (CA,OR,NY,FL, IA,Il) this fall. Best to you! Jo
Wonderful blog! Wendy, I love reading about what you are doing and thinking and seeing the pictures. I can understand why it will be hard to leave! Your intelligence and ingenuity and good spirits shine through your writing. Thanks for keeping blog going!
Anne
I give you an A plus That title was suggested, and it is appropriate. Diocesan convention is here now, and the Burkes and two women are staying with me, but I am leaving before they do. I have a new smart phone, and Paneen and I are going to get it set up. Then, Anna and I leave for the Grand Hotel on Mackinac Island, MI Monday, a gathering of clergy and spouses of MI. Will go to Midland, too. Love,
That lovely photo reminds me of something more or less anthropological I read years ago -- unless again memory has capsized -- stating that even today persons show preferences for broad open areas peopled with copses and stands of trees here and there. . . evidently because it is reminiscent of the African savannah where presumably we all got our start and the "prospect and refuge" character of its terrain.
Welcome home there
Welcome home here again
I am a retired teacher of Russian, Latin, and history. I have two children and a beautiful daughter-in-law and granddaughter.
I am about to embark on a year-long adventure teaching in Namibia.... full info
Robin
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I am so proud of you - and envious!
Hi Wendy, I found your blog a bit ago. I heard you had made a major life choice by going to Africa to teach. How amazing! I hope to see you again when you arrive back in Anchorage:) Robin