Monday, April 23, 2007

Friends around the world . . .

Hey hey and good day!

No, I'm not gone yet, however today marks one month - that's right 30 days - until I will be in Burkina Faso. I plan on posting some historical and contextual information about Burkina Faso in the upcoming days, so that all of you who have never heard of the place before can become acquainted with the place which has stolen my heart already, all the way in Canada.

What I wanted to point out today was that I have been adding links to the side bar there; most importantly I wanted you to note my fellow friends blogs. As I had said last time, I am involved with Engineers Without Borders and this year our chapter is sending two Junior Fellows overseas (Holly to Ghana and Owen to Zambia). Both of these folks are terribly smart and exceptionally articulate, so I encourage you to check out their experiences. Below those links, you will see the links of my friends on their Renaissance College Internships. I have friends going to Ghana, Vietnam, Bhutan, Ecuador and Slovenia. Thus far I just have Joanna's blog posted, but be sure to check it and the new ones I post with time. Joanna is going to Vietnam and she will be working in Da Nang . Joanna and our other friend, Dana, who is going with her, have been doing a super spectacular job of preparing themselves for Vietnam, so their posts are sure to be really insightful, not to mention full of beautiful pictures!

Anyhow friends, I'm going to continue to tie up the loose ends that are school work, and I will talk to you all sooner than later.

PS I am beginning to become rather frustrated with the fact that spell checks (both on this Blogger website and on my Gmail) fail to recognize Burkina Faso as being a word. I mean, it's a country, seriously!

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