The Great Unknown

Gah! So much to do! I have a ton of paperwork to fill out...and not very much time to visit friends or study French... :S

57 days.

Want to be my Hero?

I would literally kiss your feet if you should be so inclined to, at any time (and as often as you want) over the next 2 years, send me a package of, well, anything. :) Please try to "mouse-proof" your packages and the goodies they hold.

PCV Teresa Schnur (Ouly Cisse)
B.P. 2163 Ndorong
Kaolack, Senegal

If you need ideas of what to send me:

AA/AAA rechargeable batteries

Office stuff: binder clips, paper clips, pocket size notebooks, cheap pens...

cotton handkerchiefs/bandanas

embroidery floss

antibacterial soaps (ie: Dial, Irish Spring, Zest)

anything that kills or repels bugs. anything.

Craisins

sample size perfumes, lotions, etc

Old magazines, be they educational or trashy or intellectual.

National Geographic maps of anywhere (or any other type of map. But please. Maps!)

SEEDS: geraniums, marigolds, daisys, sunflowers, cosmos, any flowers. Lettuce, spinach, peas (they probably won't grow, but I want to try), cabbage, carrots, squashes, cucumbers, tomatoes...really, anything. :)

FOOD: drink mixes (Kool Aid, Country Time, Crystal Lite, hot cocoa, apple cider...), candy (M&Ms, fruity stuff), altoids, jerky, dried fruit, cup-a-stuffs (ie: pudding, fruit, jello), granola/protien bars, chips(oooohhhh for Tim's of Cascade's Jalapeno kettle chips), just-add-water stuff, powdered sauce mixes (ranch, gravy, spaghetti, etc)

Or, just send me letters. :)

AND

Everyone wants to know what to send the small children.

DO NOT send whistles!! (because I will go crazy)

Balls, math-related stuff, the paddle-ball thingy, coloring books/crayons (that aren't Disney or English...just pictures), marbles, hand-me-down clothes, the vitamins that are more candy-like than vitamin-like, the little boys in my compound would appreciate horse-y things, stickers, fake tattoos, dolls (white or black...but they really like the white ones)

Read in Senegal

The Elvenbane, Andre Norton & Mercedes Lackey
Sabriel, Garth Nix
Back When we were Grownups, Anne Tyler
Galileo's Daughter, Dava Sobel
The Year of Living Biblically, AJ Jacobs
Mountains Beyond Mountains, Tracy Kidder
As We Forgive, Catherine Claire Larson
Young Men and Fire, Norman Maclean
Desert Solitaire, Edward Abbey
Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkein
An Empire Wilderness, Robert Kaplan
The Authoritative Calvin and Hobbes, Bill Waterson
Watership Down, Richard Adams
Good Poems, Garrison Keillor, ed.
Great Short Short Stories, Paul Negri, ed
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, Jules Verne
Hayduke Lives!, Edward Abbey
Emma, Jane Austen
Streets of Laredo, Larry McMurtry
Lonesome Dove, Larry McMurtry
The Monkey Wrench Gang, Edward Abbey
Surprised by Joy, C.S. Lewis
Dear Exile, Kate Montgomery/Hilary Liftin
Deep Economy, Bill McKibben
Unbowed, Wangari Maathai
Blue Clay People, William Powers
Unaccustomed Earth, Jhumpa Lahiri
Say You're One of Them, Akpan Uwem
A Life Inspired, (Peace Corps)
Euripedes II, ed. David Greene
Two Ears of Corn, Roland Bunch
Ordinary Graces, ed. Lorraine Kisly
John Adams, David McCullough
The Kitchen Boy, Robert Alexander
Persuasion, Jane Austen
Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen
Waiting for the Snow, Thomas Scanlon
A Man Without A Country, Kurt Vonnegut
The Namesake, Jhumpa Lahiri
In a Sunburned Country, Bill Bryson
The Practice of the Presence of God, brother Lawrence
The Gathering Storm, Robert Jordan/Brandon Sanderson
On Top of The World, Luree Miller
Jude the Obscure, Thomas Hardy
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain
The Essential Calvin & Hobbes, Bill Watterson
The Far Pavillions, M.M. Kaye
A Fortune Teller Told Me, Tiziano Terzani
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, Dee Brown
Galapagos, Kurt Vonnegut
A Prayer for Owen Meany, John Irving
The 5 People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom
The Nightingale, Morgana Gallway
The Prophet, Kahlil Gibran
The Ordinary Princess, M. M. Kaye
Crossroads of Twilight, Robert Jordan
The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell
Interpreter of Maladies, Jhumpa Lahiri

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Saturday, April 18, 2009

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