Friday, November 16th, 2007...12:16 am
Save the Letters!
I would like to remind us all that letter-writing is a dying art and if it weren’t for friends and family living in remote areas of the world, then it would most certainly be completely dead by now. This is a cause worth fighting for! Don’t let the letter go the way of the Dodo!
Write to me! Write to me and know that I will gobble up your news, your gossip, your chit chat, your deep thoughts, your hard-to-decipher handwriting as if they were the last piece of birthday cake on my last birthday for a whole year! Write to me NOW and I’ll get it sometime in my first couple months! (And if you happen to stick a crossword puzzle in there, you won’t hear ME complaining about it!)
I am quite certain that if there were ever a time in my life that I would be better at maintaining correspondences, then this is going to be it! If I don’t write back to you from Guinea, then I suck way more than I think I do! (Remember, if it takes 3 months for the letter to get to you, I cannot be held responsible!)
Main address:
Corps de la Paix Americain
BP 1927
Conakry, Guinea
West Africa
After training, I’ll move out to my site and then will have an address closer to home, but the above address will always work.
I have 14 days to go and it is becoming increasingly clear to me that, at some point, I will be on a plane and I will actually be going. Better eat cake now! 
2 Comments
November 16th, 2007 at 8:33 pm
Katy,
Good luck!
I fell in love with Guinea and Guineans when first posted to Kissidougou, Guinea in 1964.
I was blessed to have a chance to return to Kissidougou 40 years later, in Nov/Dec 2004.
Today, my wife and I tried sending funds to a Sarama, a son of one of my 1964 Guinean friends. Sarama is a student attending Kofi University. Unfortunately, our MoneyGram attempt failed in sending Sarama U.S. Dollars. Maybe next time?
Again, congratulations and good luck! Robert (Guinea ’63-’65)
December 2nd, 2007 at 3:55 am
Yeah, still up. How come I didn’t realize you were blogging even before you left?!
Sigh…mothers…always the last to know (and so often for good reason).
I’ll try to keep the gooshy stuff for letters from now on! xo!
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