A couple of days ago I celebrated my one year in Suriname with Jamie, McDonald's, and the flu. Yep, she and I both had something awful. After fighting fevers and sleeping the day away, we took a cab to McDonald's. The driver ever so graciously let us order in the drive-thru. My burger wasn't ready with the rest of the order, so we had to park and wait. The driver then asked us what kind of music we liked and changed his cd accordingly. We bought him a coke. This was one of those many moments in the past year in which I have found myself laughing and shaking my head at the situations I find myself in. My life has been nothing short of humorous this past year.
There have been lots of moments when I wondered how I was going to make it to this point. I no longer have to wonder about that. I am here. I cannot believe it's gone by as fast as it has. I feel like I have so much left to do in my Peace Corps service, and now I only have half the time to do it.
It feels good to be at this point. I am proud of myself. I am proud of my group and the friends I have made. I am thankful for my village and the patience they exercise with their white girl. Life is good.
Thank you to most of the misfits in this picture for being my friend, and for the work they do everyday. I am happy we're here to support each other. It's been a good year, SUR 17.
Good morning how are you?
ReplyDeleteMy name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of used stamps because trough them, you can see pictures about fauna, flora, monuments, landscapes etc. from all the countries. As every day is more and more difficult to get stamps, some years ago I started a new collection in order to get traditional letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately it’s impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this I would ask you one small favor:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Suriname? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Suriname in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and an original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Calle Valencia,39
28903 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely
Emilio Fernandez