Well, I haven’t! And just to keep the topic fresh in your minds, I thought I would post a few helpful hints I failed to mention the first time. These are a few tricks to help our lonely little letters navigate the treacherous waters of the Guinean postal system:
- Use red ink to [...]
In case you haven’t taken a look around, I wanted to point out the plethora of cool stuff on this site! Take a tour of the right side and you’ll find all of my photos, interesting Peace Corps links, my old travel blog and other great sites/blogs of friends and family.
Also, I’m thinking [...]
It’s my last birthday in my twenties; it’s the first beautiful snowfall of the year; it’s the day before Thanksgiving AND I have nine days until my mom and I pile into a car, drive to Philadelphia and my new life begins!!! I’ve been ticking things off my list like a mad woman [...]
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 [...]
Last night my friend Traci was saying that she was looking forward to hearing what I thought about how West Africans dance – something it might not have occurred to me to blog about, but I will now!
If there’s anything that you guys want to know about/are curious about regarding Guinea or my life in [...]
So, I find myself with more and more time on my hands as there’s even less and less for me to do at work, and therefore I also find myself catching up with some old friends and doing a lot of Guinea research. Nerves are starting to get to me a little more than they [...]
The countdown is counting down…the day is drawing near. I doubt my current feeling of calm anticipation is going to see me through to the end; I expect I’ve got a few sleepless nights and butterfly-filled stomachs in my near future. For now, I’m capitalizing on my new free time and the momentum of an [...]
If you don’t know who I am or what this is all about, check out the “about” page and you’ll learn more than you ever need to know about someone you don’t know!
I don’t know what my internet access is going to be like in Guinea (i.e., I don’t know how often I will get [...]
