Jim - It's Barb Saltsman Hi Jim, your Mom sent me the latest link to your travel blogs. This area is absolutely beautiful. All the places you have visited have been beautiful. I've enjoyed your pictures and your stories. What a great adventure you're having. I'm jealous!! Miss seeing you around home. Take care...
Love, Barb Saltsman
WOW ditto Looks like you had a great day. Your pictures are really good. What would we do without digital cameras? Hope your year is going well. I'm doing well, but I don't know when I'll get to Whitesboro again. Your mom keeps us informed on things at home. Malcolm
WOW! Great hearing from you Jimmy. The vistas are beautiful here. Thanks so much for sharing them! So it sounds like you are still teaching English at a high school, where? In Spain somewhere. Have you been back to the states, or had visitors there? Does school go year round, or do you have time off to travel to other wonderful places.
Here at St. Camillus, Mike is taking a Habitat group to Africa in the spring to build . . . expanding out of central America to another continent! I heard the trip was practically full! Sounds exciting, but awfully far from home.
I currently have a student from Spain. I would love to show her these pictures! Thanks for keeping me on the mailing list! I love hearing from you when you write! Nancy
PS Vicky has a little baby girl now! Adorable.
WOW! Jimmy: I am living vicariously through your many adventures and I love being on your email list to get them. The pictures are great and you are as cute as ever, and I can tell you are having the time of your life, as you should be at your age. What beautiful pictures and commentary of standing above the clouds. I love it! Did you see God?
Love,
Nancy
Hello Hi Jim,
You mom shared your blog with me. What a wonderful experience for you!! Sounds like you are having a wonderful time! Rit and I are glad to hear that you are healthy and happy. The best of luck as you continue this journey!! Much love, Rit and Fran
Hi! Great reading this . . .finally. Snow, speaking of snow, we have just tons of it. Last week (Friday and Saturday) approximately 24-30+ inches fell in our area, and today we are in the midst of another blizzard which they say will be 10-20" so I am definitely feeling like it is winter. Father Mike and entourage leave the Friday after Ash Wed for Guatemala . . . I am NOT going, but a lot of our group is returning . . . Sandra, Mary, Pat, Jean, Jim Cullen.
Megan and Todd got married in the fall . . . we had a little party for them. Malinda just had a baby. Mike is doing a fabulous job as the new Pastor, and things are really starting to happen at St. Camillus.
Your adventures sound fun and exciting.
We are going to Assisi and Rome in June. The Multicultural choir is singing at the Bascilica in Assisi on one Sunday and at St. Peters the next! We just could not miss that event (my husband sings in the choir). Jean and her husband are going too, so that will be fun.
Thanks for keeping me on you mailing list. I will forward this to Jean, as well, as we often talk about you!
Siena Hey Jim, Happy New Year! Are you getting my emails @ Siena? They are undefeated in the MAAC. Sean lives your "hood" now. Keep in touch and be safe. Go Colts! Uncle T-Bone
Sounds like fun! Hey Jim --
Your mom forwarded your blog and I enjoyed it immensely. Hope you know how lucky you are to be experiencing another culture so intimately -- can you tell I'm jealous? Your descriptions of things are wonderful. The photos are great, too. Have fun!
Bob Ward
you made it! Jimmy,
we will be following your adventure, I sure hope we make it out there in the spring. you work on your mom from your end, and I'll work on the rest of the crew. Grammie needs to get her passport.
Mom and Dad are out in San Diego this week and we are having a BLAST! We went dining and dancing last night.
great martini's. came home and played pitch. Yankees play tonight, it's been a great series to watch and tonight will be another nail biter. keep us posted with photgraghs and stories.
I sure do love you and we all miss you.
XXOO
Hi Jimmy This sounds like a great job, and it is wonderful to hear from you from far away Spain. Wish I could join you! I am working part time this fall . . . and am very busy with work at St. Camillus, too. Had a wonderful spiritual experience this summer at a camp for teen moms and their babies. I went as a baby sitter, care-giver (paid to go, of course) but what a marvelous experience . . . in every way. Mike is going back to Guatemala in Feb. I think I will pass, but I have been doing the local Habitat builds all summer. They are one day events, but very cool! I am becoming a good builder. Vicki and Jim are now both on the Parish Council at St. Camillus, so I see them regularly. Both are fine. Older, tall Jim is singing in the 9:00 choir with Jean; but we usually go to 10:30 Mass because Alcine sings in that choir. We had a shower not long ago for Megan and Todd who getting married this week end. Malinda is pregnant and expecting in November, I think. Soon!
That's all the news from Maryland. But thanks for keeping me on your email list. You will be in my prayers. Come see us!
You are always welcome here.
Nancy
Jim! It looks like you're having a fantastic time. I can't believe how much you are traveling. You should consider a trip to Warsaw and visit me before I leave on the 20th.
Krakow on the 24th of May...well I would absolutely love to, except our program has a trip planned out for us that weekend to Sevilla...so I won't be able to meet you both :( but it sounds like you are going to have a good time. I missed all you guys at the PO this year. I hope you are doing well...feel free to shoot me an email sometime jj18barr@siena.edu (because now I have your email address!!!)
Switzerland Amazing, beautiful. Thanks so much for sharing. You are so lucky to be able to do and enjoy all this at this time in your life. Love, Mrs. P
Allyson and I would like to know just how much money the PO paid you to allow you to just hop a plane whenever your little heart desires. Meet us in Krakow on the 24th?
Switzerland The pictures are beautiful and once again, a very clean European city. I know how you felt when you said you loved the green grass and sound of running water. When I visited Germany, after being in Holland for 8 months, it reminded me so much of home. There were mountains and hills, valleys and streams and still a little snow in spots. The sun was shining every day and the sky was so blue with a few puffy white clouds. Holland is very flat...and where I lived, many man-made canals and grey skies with stormy looking coulds. It rained or drizzled most of the time I lived there. I had a lot of "bad hair days" because of the humidity.
amazing Hello Jimmy, your blog is amazing. Both the narration and pictures. I can only imagine what it must be like to be there and experience all you've done and seen. I'm glad I finally sat down and took the time to view it fully! Take care and try to fit some school work in there. We miss you! Oh yeah, Mr. P starts at the course on Monday - he's the new Justin.
Green with ENVY! Jim! the pictures are so beautiful, I feel as though I need to get on a plane and come and join you! I hope all is well, we missed you at easter. Aunt gail forgot the asparagus in the back room, so we had it with dessert. It was quite a scandal. Keep in touch. I can't wait for you to get back to albany, no worries though. I got a new car :) -Love andi
Beautiful!!! I love the blog Jim. You did a great job!! The pictures are breathtaking....I can't imagine what it felt like to be there but you did a good job describing it. Love Mom.
Barb Saltsman
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Jim - It's Barb Saltsman
Hi Jim, your Mom sent me the latest link to your travel blogs. This area is absolutely beautiful. All the places you have visited have been beautiful. I've enjoyed your pictures and your stories. What a great adventure you're having. I'm jealous!! Miss seeing you around home. Take care... Love, Barb Saltsman