update

matt is going to do a guest appearance soon to tell you all about his WILD trip so far. good news is we are both still healthy and have safely made it back to conakry. check for it soon, it should be good. in other news, matt has informed me that my blogs have a certain abstract quality to them, and being the engineer he is, has agreed to look into making the whole layout and list making more conducive to be read by people who have "real" jobs and "real" lives back in the first world. thanks matt. (sarcastic smile) i cant wait to see what he comes up with. oh a couple more things (matt is pacing behind me wanting to leave the computer lab), 1-i love comments on my blog, just try not to say anything that might offend the US gov b/c they moniter these. 2- matt went above and beyond any expectations i may have had about food gifts so i should be good for a couple of months (but i have to admit that by saying that im sort of afraid yall will forget about me completely hahaha). 3- to Marian and Holly, i just got a package from each of you and OMG I LOVE LOVE LOVE bacon so THANK YOU SOOO MUCH and also for the extremely useful toothbrush holder (yay no more germy counters/dirt floors haha) and stamps- as well as the goldfish which ive decided are my #1 favorite food of all time (you find these things out in africa once you've been here for a while deprived of a fully stocked grocery store...or ANY grocery store for that matter haha)... 4- i love you all and esp right now KRISTIN and DAD who have loaned me the boy they love for three weeks of excitement (and some unexpected near death experiences haha- much more funny when told in stories at a later date)...ok, really must go now but good luck everyone in surviving the economic meltdown i keep hearing about on bbc and I LOVE YOU ALL!!! peace:)