Hello wonderful friends,
Thing have been changing quickly here. Erica is home in the USA for medical reasons, we should know in 2-3 weeks what her treatment and recovery schedule are going to look like. I will let you know more of what I will be doing once I know more. I have been to the island where we will be building the guesthouse and orphanage and this next week we will be getting the licenses for building and will be breaking ground on the wall around the land that officially claims the land for the church in the next couple of weeks. The way land ownership works in Bissau is extremely confusing, Im still trying to wrap my head around it, but the important thing to take away is building will be starting soon!
My Kriol is coming along, but dont ask me to go to the market and buy sourkraut because I dont know the word for sourkraut yet...not to mention that is more of a German thing so there probably isnt a word for sourkraut.
I had the orphans at the childrens home tell me their life story and it was one of the most emotionally raw things I have ever done. Just thinking about it makes me want to cry again. It is unbelievable what many of the children that we are helping have been through.
One of the children, JC, was kiddnapped by a Senegalize man who said he was going to put him into school in Dakar. Instead he was forced to be a talibe, a street boy, and if he didnt return each day with a dollar and a kilo of rice or he would be severly beaten. They forced him to learn the Koran. He met a Guinean woman in the Market in Dakar who offered to pay for him to return to Bissau. His story didnt end there, but I get so teary eyed thinking of it that I will have to continue it later. I took videos of each of their life stories and I will let you know when I have them subtitled and uploaded onto YouTube.
Anyway it is getting late and I get to celebrate thanksgiving tomorrow so I should get some sleep, so I am going to sign off, I love you all,
Jason
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 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 favour:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Guinea Bissau? 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 Guinea Bissau 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 a original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Avenida Juan de la Cierva, 44
28902 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