still here
Mike and Roma said:
Hi,
Does anyone know if Mountainannie still requires books for her school. I have sent her a PM but get the impression from this thread that it is possible she may not get my message.
I will be coming from Toronto to the Las Terrenas area the week of February 27th and would like to bring her some books. I have many english books and some french. If I can get in touch with her prior to leaving I will load up.
Thanks, Roma
i think I got through with a private message in response to this. Yes, I am still in Las Terrenas, now teaching English in two schools - ages 5-14 - 5 classes --- no books at all. So any basic word identification books with the pictures so I can point, a good English grammar * I used Warriner's for years - also any poetry for kids - particularly the Winnie thePooh which i adored. CD's of kids songs would be great - my invented lyrics to "if you're happy and you know it" are getting a bit tired.
I wrote an article for this months escape america magazine at
www.escapeartist.com and am getting about 8 emails a day on it.Most of them I have just referred back to you all as you know more about the country and banks and all that.
sorry I haven't been on line - don't have internet in the apartment anymore.
weather is awful. Robberies abound - my sandals, my headlamp, my little collection of earrings from all my friends, and then 0h no -- my hammock. I dive down and come back up - it's only stuff. And i did leave the stuff outside or was in a hotel. Lucky it wasn't with a machete to my throat.
Working now on talking up getting water to the village. It's a bit much to have the resort hotels on the beach and the locals bathing in the river. Spoke to the German baker today - talk it up among the Germans --- about 100 of them - hey, they should be able to do it, right? All the French report continuing attacks of parasites and are thin beyond the point of chic.
I meet interesting new people every day.
best to all -
elizabeth