miss you hi jamie! this is the first time i've read your blog! i'm missing out! well i'm sitting at nancy's desk drinking a heineken...slow day at work!!! christmas is tomorrow, and i get to go home! then i'm off to seattle next week, to caroline's wedding, and hopefully to kalispell to see nick! i'd send you a grilled cheese if it would make it to m'car!! miss you much, i'll write soon. love you!!
Merry Christmas...we miss you Hey there, I wanted to wish you a merry christmas and I am going to be sending you a card, so hopefully you get it by this summer!! Hopefully they can forward your mail to your new address!! We miss you too girl, I was thinking about you when the weather was about -32 the other day how warm and toasty you were in your little mud hut!! Things are good around here, Chancey is always busy, and I am on the road a lot, traveling to little Montana towns that I am sure people would forget if they were not on the map. Anyway, I love you girl and miss your friend hugs as well (you did after all give the best friend hugs). Take care of your self, and just remember how you were nervous all of those other times, and how it all works out in the end!! Love you girl, Bethany
Congratulations! It sounds like things are going great. It is so good to hear from you. I enjoy hearing about the country there.
Love you much, Grandma Jean
We miss you too! We miss you too - especially being able to talk to you without a month delay. We are snowed in here so badly that we had to cancel a trip to Billings, so it's hard to imagine the heat. I wish we could be there to hug you for Christmas, but I know you are going to be great at your village. They will learn to love you as much as we do. Love Mom
I am seeing snow today. First real snow storm I've seen since I moved down here. Bob shoveled off my driveway this morning. I don't think it will stay long but it is just enough to make you realize it is winter! I think about you every day. I'm glad you're training is over. Now it should get to be interesting. It sounds exciting.
Love, Grandma
nice photos hi moon. potential pcv here. just looking around the web for pics on madagascar. hope you don't mind me stopping by. you photos are quite good. staging for me is february. i'll be in the eastern rainforest zone south of tsarazaza. have you heard of ambatofotsy? perhaps i'll see you sometime in the future. best regards - luke
One of the things you have learned reminded me of a story.
Do you know the difference between a rich man and a poor man? A rich man has a canopy over his bed. A poor man has a canopy under his bed.
I think I heard this at a rodeo. The clown asked the announcer the question!
Love, Grandma
Hello! I am always glad to see your travelblog. I sent you a little note this morning but you will get this much sooner. Just want to let you know I love you and think of you every day. Things are going good here.
Love, Grandma
I Love You Hey you, I was just thinking about you and how I need to send you a card or something before you leave to a new place. It sounds like you are doing a lot of new and exciting things, and learning so much already. I can't believe that yu have been gone, sometimes I think, I should call Jamie, but I can't. I love you girl, and I can't wait to read your next entry, be safe, and know that a lot of people here love and miss, and are still so proud of all that you have done already!!
~Bethany
Sorry? no need to be. Your dialog is wonderful. Makes great reading and the fact that you have so little access to internet
makes the commentary even more special. Love
Dad
Thank you so much for your travelBlog. I am glad things are going so well for you. Imagine meeting someone from so close to home when you are so far away! I enjoyed hearing from you.
Love, Grandma
Wow!! You make Madagascar sound amazing!!! Is the language difficult to pronounce? I want to have dinner with you when you come back so I can try all your little delicacies.
Incredible!!! Wow!!! You are really grasping the language well and you have such compassion and patience. You make me want to go to Madagascar. I love that you were calling the chicks bananas. Hey, they're yellow right? Anyway, it sounds really amazing from what you are saying. Do you just drink plain coffee or do you get lattes and things like that. Is it like a Farmer's Market there on Wednesday. Obviously they don't airlift an Albertson's Super Market in there. Do you need anything?
love from texas Jaime, Missing you much. Happy Belated Birthday!!
I am so glad you are enjoying the journey right from the get-go.
Will send letter, love and gratitude..pam
How very exciting! I wish you nothing but the best! Thanks again for the phone call before you left town--I really appreciated it! I'll be thinking about you--be safe and enjoy this experience!
Oh God, the memories! This morning is the very first time I have even looked at blogs. After a dozen I decided they were mostly written by people who mostly wanted to listen to themselves and really had little of interest to say. I was certain I had nothing to comment on. And then I stumbled onto your posting!!! Ack - the memories! I am a native Montanan who attended Cornell and then went back to MSU at Bozeman for Grad School. After working for DOL in Billings, I - wait for it - joined the Peace Corps. I didn't fly from Bozeman to Philly - but I did drive a battered old orange VW Camper Van (called the "Lorax")from Dutton (N of Great Falls) all the way to Philly for Peace Corps orientation. I was sent to Iran as an Agricultural Advisor. I loved pre-revolution Iran and it set me on a new life. I did grad school again at the School for International Training in Brattleboro, Vermont - went to Niger, West Africa, with Lutheran World Relief (digging wells in the Sahel) - then Jacmel, Haiti, with Foster Parents Plan (now ChildReach) rum punch on the Caribbean beaches - and then the dream! Assigned as Country Director in Nepal with PLAN. Fabulous times - then met a NZ woman working with Mother Theresa Hospice in Kathmandu - moved to NZ, married and now have two girls I am encouraging to consider voluntary service abroad. It's been a fascinating life - beginning with that long trip from Montana to Philly. Drop me a line at DaveShan@quicksilver.net.nz if you want to learn more about a life like that.
Cheers from Down Under
I am a 20-something world-traveler who wants to explore as much as I can. I am living in Madagascar now as a PCV doing Community Health Education. I am a voracious reader, and occasionally dabble in writing poetry. I love being outdoors, especially in Montana. I find the mountains in M'car resemble Montana, so I am very tamana here. I have a passion for spending time with children and I look forward to the adventures life takes me on!
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send pictures!
can you upload pics to the blog site? because you should! i want to see this place!