July 14, 2008

Hello from Antsirabe - the nearest large town where Katie and I brousse'd in order to grocery shop and do a little internet for the day. Thank you for the blog posts. I just received packages from my mom, sister and brother, which kept my little post office in a bit of an uproar, and I was shocked by the shipping cost! So, please don't worry about sending me anything more. I have all that I need and can buy almost everything here. However, feel free to send mail! And pictures!

Some people seem to think that I am somehow uninterested in their lives since I'm living in poverty, but nothing could be further from the truth - I miss everyone terribly, and love getting details about what you're doing. Just found out that my folks have a dog now, and my brother is moving to Idaho, and Brian may actually come in for his mani/pedi/facial in his French maid's outfit, and believe me, this kind of news from home keeps me entertained for hours.

My mom sent me an US Weekly along with some other more high-brow magazines in her package, and while I was not a huge fan of those kinds of magazines in the states (unless they featured my cousin, of course), I read it cover-to-cover twice. Such pretty people! So clean! It was like cocaine. I couldn't put it down, but felt guilty pouring over it, and hid it from the neighborhood kids (who loved the crayons, by the way).

Rob wants to see more pictures. Unfortunately, I don't have a digital camera so I'm dependent on others to provide me their pics to upload. That's why I provided a list of other people's blogs so you can see their photos. Sorry!

I'll have internet access again August 9th when I go to Tana for more training. More then!