Well just when I was beginning to rethink the state of internet access and service here ... the server was down one day, the power out another, and then the connection molasses slow later on. 

 

This will be a relative quickie.  I just re-read the last missive I sent out, and I'm sorry, gads that was long and convoluted.  For my next real email, I promise to edit...

 

I was seriously concerned about falling into a depression once returning to Togo after vacation.  I was fine before I left but after just one day in Morocco, I didn't even want to SEE anything that reminded me of Togo.  Had I been living in denial?  Had I really been unhappy here and hadn't realized it? 

 

I still don't know the answer, but I've luckily been too busy to think about it too much, and happy to report that I have not fallen into a depression.  I have a lot going on right now, and in the next few months, to get me to the one-year-at-post mark.  I just talked to a few volunteers who said everything turned around for them at about that time.

 

Next month will already be a year since I left Seattle, and dammit there are people I haven't heard from in 6 months or more.  You know who you are...  (Sus, yer off the hook now, but I was beginning to wonder.  Great to hear from you!!!!).  Just drop a quick, "Hey I'm alive, but I'm just really busy/I've fallen madly in-love/I've been in the wilderness since January...but I still love you..."

 

Okay, like I promised, just a quickie, since I started this email a month ago.  I will be able to check in again around the 25th of this month.

 

love and kisses, Laura