My Daughter Laughs
Date: Dec. 20, 2004
From: CRS
To: MJS
Mom, really I keep laughing with my friends about how all our mothers are going through this funny “red hat” phase unique to your generation, women who were raised with little options into an era with many, and the ways they are suddenly breaking out and branching out. Not that I personally want to write more, but I think especially interesting would be letters between mothers and daughter in this time period.
Life here in Columbia gets better by the minute. I move into the guest room of the house with my family. I LOVE THEM! We make meals together, dance together, do Christmas preps together, laugh together… they are sooo wonderful, and treat me like a daughter. Their twelve year old treats me like a sister, and my Spanish is improving by the minute.
I expect to be home at the end of January, to see my friends too and attend at least one wedding. When I was talking to them on the phone my Columbian family woke up and ran to check on me because they “thought someone was being murdered” from the amount of screaming and shrieking that was coming from my room!
I have a phone interview for leading tours with Where There Be Dragons. I don’t know which of their programs they are hiring for, India or South America. That’s all! Time for the sunset!
Date: Jan. 2, 2005-01-03
From: CRS
To: MJS
I celebrated the New Year with all my friends here by going to a rave deep in the jungle, and right on the beach, of the Tayona National Park. Didn’t go to bed till yesterday afternoon, and it was an unforgettable time, but I’m still recovering today.
The family has planned a trip for tomorrow to Playa Concha to celebrate my birthday. I am excited, but I’m sad to be leaving them the next day. I had originally planned to take my time getting back to Quito, but now I’ve used up those days hanging out here and I have to get across the border by the 10th before my Visa runs out, which means I have to hightail myself across the country. It will take 80 hours travel time, mostly by bus. Anyway, I started today on a juice fast, but I think I need more energy for this day of recovery, so I’m going to go find vegetables to make some food. And then I’m going to take a big fat nap! Love, CRS
From: CRS
To: MJS
Mom, really I keep laughing with my friends about how all our mothers are going through this funny “red hat” phase unique to your generation, women who were raised with little options into an era with many, and the ways they are suddenly breaking out and branching out. Not that I personally want to write more, but I think especially interesting would be letters between mothers and daughter in this time period.
Life here in Columbia gets better by the minute. I move into the guest room of the house with my family. I LOVE THEM! We make meals together, dance together, do Christmas preps together, laugh together… they are sooo wonderful, and treat me like a daughter. Their twelve year old treats me like a sister, and my Spanish is improving by the minute.
I expect to be home at the end of January, to see my friends too and attend at least one wedding. When I was talking to them on the phone my Columbian family woke up and ran to check on me because they “thought someone was being murdered” from the amount of screaming and shrieking that was coming from my room!
I have a phone interview for leading tours with Where There Be Dragons. I don’t know which of their programs they are hiring for, India or South America. That’s all! Time for the sunset!
Date: Jan. 2, 2005-01-03
From: CRS
To: MJS
I celebrated the New Year with all my friends here by going to a rave deep in the jungle, and right on the beach, of the Tayona National Park. Didn’t go to bed till yesterday afternoon, and it was an unforgettable time, but I’m still recovering today.
The family has planned a trip for tomorrow to Playa Concha to celebrate my birthday. I am excited, but I’m sad to be leaving them the next day. I had originally planned to take my time getting back to Quito, but now I’ve used up those days hanging out here and I have to get across the border by the 10th before my Visa runs out, which means I have to hightail myself across the country. It will take 80 hours travel time, mostly by bus. Anyway, I started today on a juice fast, but I think I need more energy for this day of recovery, so I’m going to go find vegetables to make some food. And then I’m going to take a big fat nap! Love, CRS
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