I realize it has been a little while since there has been an update, but the last five weeks of my life have been crazy. I have done some amazing thing with many of my favorite people in the world. In the coming weeks, you can read all about them here (or not, do what you have to do) but in the meantime, I hope this special treat will hold you over.
As a thoughtful and entertaining Christmas gift for family and friends back home, a married couple from my group, Daniel and Danielle Luttrull, decided to make a podcast consisting of many volunteers telling stories from Ethiopia. The result is THIS. It is an honest look at life in Ethiopia. Some of the stories are heartwarming while others are silly. Download it all; give it a listen. And while it has an overall Christmas theme, the topic of all of our stories is good year around: things you never expected to happen in your life.
As a note, tracks 4, 6, and 8 have mild curse words if there are little ears around. And track number 2 is a hilariously thoughtful description of a former vegetarian witnessing/helping slaughter a goat for an Ethiopia holiday. If you are a bit squeamish, maybe don't listen to it while driving.
And if you want more, here are the personal blogs of some of the people you'll hear stories from. Enjoy!
Joel Miller (Track 2)
Sarah and Aaron Arnold (Tracks 4 and 5)
Joe Whelan (Track 7)
Daniel and Danielle Luttrull (Tracks 8 and 11 and your hosts for the hour)
As a thoughtful and entertaining Christmas gift for family and friends back home, a married couple from my group, Daniel and Danielle Luttrull, decided to make a podcast consisting of many volunteers telling stories from Ethiopia. The result is THIS. It is an honest look at life in Ethiopia. Some of the stories are heartwarming while others are silly. Download it all; give it a listen. And while it has an overall Christmas theme, the topic of all of our stories is good year around: things you never expected to happen in your life.
As a note, tracks 4, 6, and 8 have mild curse words if there are little ears around. And track number 2 is a hilariously thoughtful description of a former vegetarian witnessing/helping slaughter a goat for an Ethiopia holiday. If you are a bit squeamish, maybe don't listen to it while driving.
And if you want more, here are the personal blogs of some of the people you'll hear stories from. Enjoy!
Joel Miller (Track 2)
Sarah and Aaron Arnold (Tracks 4 and 5)
Joe Whelan (Track 7)
Daniel and Danielle Luttrull (Tracks 8 and 11 and your hosts for the hour)
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 is impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are very small countries with very few population, 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 Ethiopia? 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 Ethiopia 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