mardi 8 février 2011

Love from Colorado

I got a letter from the Colorado Clan! It is such a wonderful little burst of happy when I get a letter from home. They sent me a lovely card for Thanksgiving and this ornament. It's hanging up in my room now!

Thank you, Coloradans!

If anyone else wants to send little letters or hellos I love to get them. They'd have to be sent off pretty soon, because the mail takes forever to get here from the States, and I'm leaving in a little less than three months. (Ahhhhhhh! Exciting and scary at the same time.)

My mail address is: 
S/C ACI Baobab Center
Naomi Wright
Villa 509 SKAP Baobab
BP 5270
Dakar Fann Senegal


And here's a lovely artsy photo of the little wind chime my mother sent me as part of my birthday present. It's hanging on the bars of my window. It's been really lately because it's the "winter" and I get to hear it jingle and think about my lovely family at home!

Reading Lots!

So... I've kinda been reading a lot!

"A Time for Being" Annie Dillard
"Life of Pi" Yann Martel
"Anna Karenina" Leo Tolstoy
"On the Road" Jack Kerouac
"New and Selected Poems" Mary Oliver
"I Dreamed of Africa" Kuki Gallmann
"Water for Elephants" Sara Gruen
"Poem A Day"
"The Bone People" Keri Hulme
"Crime and Punishment" Fedor Dostoïevski
"Lake Wobegon Days" Garrison Keillor
"Pride and Prejudice" Jane Austen
"Howl and Other Poems" Allen Ginsberg
"We Were the Mulvaneys" Joyce Carol Oates
"A Wrinkle in Time" Madeleine L'Engle
"No Country for Old Men" Cormac McCarthy
"The Giver" Lois Lowry
"Islam in the West"
"The Help" Kathryn Stockett