Life continues on in typical Sri Lankan fashion--slow and steady, with too much sun and a lot of laughs. I worked Friday with the teachers, which was a wonderful change of pace. We taught English in a Muslim school close to the village in which we're currently building 4 homes, a playground, and a community center. I liked teaching so much that
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I just got onto the website and spent the last hour reading and re-reading your journals. Tomorrow I'll talk to Will on my cellphone and see if I get free calls in the evening, as he does. (The age of cellphones is completely new to me, and became a necessity as our 10-year old carphone died. I went into the T-mobile store at the mall and a very pleasant young man offered to help me. I said, "Pretend I've never used a cell phone and tell me how to use this one." Jim and I went back to that store and ended up with a "family" plan and two cellphones with lots of special extras and we haven't regreted it a moment.)
So you're getting to be a teacher as well as a nurse. Welcome to our family of teachers - ha. What I want to know is how to play Obo-shin-otin-totin! Can the elementary school students who come to the YMCA after school play it? I'm enjoying my work a lot, usually 3:00-6:00 five days a week.
We are all well and Cyndy and her family, too. Kateleen was l3 on Feb. l3th! She and Madelaine would have a good time together. Maybe some day we can get a big reunion. Love, Aunt CDM
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