Dearest Mother and other concerned parties,
We have a new phone number now:
7431 9233
Unfortunately we aren't sure if the country code is 0027, 027 or neither option. Just check Botswana on the dealie...
Hope you all have recovered from the last post.
Sincerely,
Bonanzers
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I'm here! Will hopefully get a cell phone tomorrow. I like it already! South Africa is strangely familiar and unfamiliar all at the same time.
Dear Gil and Krista,
sweets!! today is the first day that I have began reading through the postings, I can't wait until you guys are back, for a number of reasons; to see you and live with you, to see your pictures and talk with you, to listen to you talk and reminicse in person. I look forward mostly to hearing about what you learned or how opinions you hold may have changed.
I think about you guys a lot. Sometimes it's funny to see Karin wearing a sweater of yours, because I think about how nice she looks and how you two probably look now. I'm sure it's not quite like the pictues Gil previously had on her desktop of you two in her underwear - but it's probably not as charming as usual :), or perhaps it is, but just in a different way. the other day one of my clients came in for an 8AM appointment and at first I noticed that it looked like she had just rolled out of bed, but then I had to change my mind. She actually looked beautiful to me because she is so sweet, and I know that she spent her extra time in the morning playing with her new puppy instead of primping, and it is her beautiful personailty that cares more about that sort of thing than about primping which reflects her exterior. So I am sure that you are both absolutely radiant...pimples, white skin, Tristan-hair (Gil, I thought that was hilarious :), smelly clothes, hairy extremities and linty belly-buttons. I smile at your passport photos on the tack board in the hall.
Today has been such an unusual day and I wish that you were home so that when I returned you could have shared the strange happenings. I was supposed to go to Laurannes this morning but the car wouldn't start, etc., so I walked to a voting station (provincial election today) and met multiple people on the way...some sweet and some quite odd. On the way home I just caught sight of a woman crashing into a street light one block from our home...I think that cognitively she is unwell. I looked at the tracks in the snow and she was drving on the sidewalk and down an alley, she seemed so dazed too, and the airbags went off, smoke came out of the car...quite the scene. Luckily a lady was soon passing with a cell phone so she called the police who we waited for....
but they must be busy today because we eventually went home. I wanted to walked the dazed driver home (who also seemed a little older) but she refused so I had to leave her alone and I just came home. It was odd the whole experience.
So I don't know if anyone else from home has been in touch with you guys, but I will refill you in, just in case. Jamie moved into your old room, kajsa into the quiet room, I into their rooms, and Karin remains as previously she was. When you first left I thought that I wouldn't feel at home anymore, and I missed you both terribly at first. Of course I still miss you, but just as home-sickness dwindles, I also have grown quite at home here. I've gotten to know Jamie and Kajsa better sinse moving in. We have house night once a week on Thursdays and I love our little home. It will be good when you both return to us. I think we will all move back to our old rooms.
As for me, I'm still as you left me I think :)
I am so happy at both jobs, and have started working an extra day at the clinic. Caleb and I are still together and I am learning lots in that relationship and it is ever-growing. Jean and I still scheme and dream of our next adventures. I like to see my family when I can, especially Lauranne since she lives here and is a girl. I like to start the day with a river-jog or sunrise-walk or a visit to the bridge (Krista, ever time I step on the brige I want to hold hands with you and Kajsa and run until her keys fall over the edge). I met Lyle and Wayne our neigbors the other day because I needed to borrow some eggs. They seemed so pleasant and I'm hoping for more opportunities to wave them hullo. I asked if they had met you gil and Wayne said yes - I thought if they knew any of us it would be you.
Krista, sometimes I think I can hear you laughing upstairs or in the hall or the kitchen, but it's mostly just in my head (or rather, all in my head) -looking forward to the real thing again.
Take care sweets!
I've not slept on the couch since you've been away, but I will some night that I feel unwell, or when I miss you particularily, or the night before you come back.
I hope that this all works out, I've never posted on a blog or whatnot before. Please let me know somehow if you can read this.
looooooooooooooooooooooooooooove
~Leah
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Hey there
Got an e-mail from Iris Reimer and they are going to be in South Africa for a holiday in the next 2 weeks, maybe you'll run into each other!! I know it's like saying you could run into someone in Canada, but stranger things have happened- It happened once already, who knows, maybe it will again.
Love, Becky
Gillian:
Tried to call you this morning but you were unavailable. For anyone calling you do not call the 027 part of the number. That is a south africa code. From Edmonton the number in total is 01126774319233. What is a good time to call, I will tr tomorrow, Thursday. Miss you. Mom
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