Last week we built snowmen, my first time ever. I have to admit, I wasn't too fond of the idea at first, but Heike and Jane managed to coax me out of my warm room and away from my book (it's on alqaeda - how exciting is that??) to join the rest of the compound out on the volley ball court. I actually had a ton of fun. Heike went for realistic, ( Read more... )

Ok, so I know I complain a lot about the cold but I won't in this email. There just isn't that much happening right now so I am limited in what to write about. Hmm...let me think. I can never remember what I want to write when I have the time to write and then when I don't have the time, a thousand different things happen ( Read more... )

As I write this, I'm completely frozen. At least I feel like I am. I know I've said it before, but I'm having serious issues with being cold. The heaters in 7/8th and 9/10th grades didn't work again for the 2nd day in a row. I was told by one of my students that it was -7C when we first started school. I don't know how to do the conversion but ( Read more... )

This has been the week for odd realizations. I looked at the tag on my Anchor Blue sweatshirt just 5 minutes ago and guess where it's made: Pakistan. Yep, just a few hundred miles from here. Odd. I am living closer to where my sweatshirt was made than ever before. But to buy it, I had to fly 10,000 give-or-take miles. That was a weird moment ( Read more... )

This past weekend was wonderful. I spent it with Laurie and Jane at the Peacebridge ladies' house. I was warm and had lots of fun. My project this weekend was to write finals and work on language. I heard a story from Laurie and translated it into English for my Dari teacher. She was majorly impressed. (So was I!) Here it is ( Read more... )

Just wanted to let you all know that my student's father relented and the three siblings were back in school today. Isn't He AWESOME??!! And FAST!
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Katie

I'm having trouble coming up with cool subject lines for my updates. Numbering them is quite boring, plus that would mean I have to keep track of how many I've sent. This one is time, because it's "time for another update." Clever, huh?? I thought so ( Read more... )

Please lift up our team as we are under major attack. Please keep asking for safety for us. The day before yesterday, I was hit by a bicyclist and yesterday I was almost hit by a car. I was walking home by myself since I was late after emailing and was pretty close to the compound when I saw a car a bit of a distance away, but coming straight at ( Read more... )

You know, it's kind of ironic how much I'm tempted to forget everything I learn after I tell you all about it. It happens almost every time I email. I think there is a conspiracy or something going on. It's a bit frustrating. But I'm proud of myself at the same time because I pulled through ok last night. For example, we had a partial team ( Read more... )

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