PLEASE SEND ME:

http://www.safetycentral.com/hanwatmisfan.html

***any of the fans on this page with LOTS of lithium batteries

http://www.cvs.com/CVSApp/cvs/gateway/search?page=1&Query=contact+solution&ActiveCat=65

***any of these 3.5 or 4 oz bottles would be great, and can you send like 3 or 4 so i can keep one at all the places i travel to a lot (conakry, kankan, kissidougou etc)

and SPLENDA and GOLDFISH and RAW ALMONDS (not grilled or salted or anything) and CHICKEN IN THE POUCH and SUNFLOWER SEEDS (no shell)

geez i love yall :)

check out my friends' blogs too:

tckinguinea.blogspot.com
lizzieinguinea.blogspot.com
alloflifeisaforeigncountry.blogspot.com
www.travelpod.com/members/kylejesw

oh, and i just finished reading this on my friend Katie's blog:

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

--Mark Twain

yea, what he said.

my outhouse building on the left and my hut on the right. the fence is around the whole bathroom and hut area to create a little private area for me away from the prying eyes of curious children.

the view from the "toilette" room looking at my "shower"

the inside of my "bathroom"~i was standing in the "shower" looking at the "toilette" room (if you walk b/t the half walls/shelves, there is a hole in the concrete floor which covers a pit, like a well, which is where i squat when i need to use the bathroom). the room where im standing slopes so when i pour water on my head from my bucket, it drains outside.

so, as most of you know, i am on my once per three month visit to conakry. it has been an amazing trip. it started off with a free ride on the 15 person World Food Program jet from Kissidougou to Nzerekore, then Nzerekote to Conakry. Since I got here friday i have had the best time i have had since i got to guinea. i never know what to write on this thing other than the pictures speak for themselves. it is so hard being alone in my village, but so amazing coming together with some of the coolest and craziest people i have ever met- my fellow volunteers. their stories make me feel like im not alone here, and snap me back to reality, which i sort of lose touch with after a couple of weeks alone in the hut. my in-service-training is in two weeks so ill finally have a chance to see EVERYONE, not just the people in my region, but people i havent seen since i was sworn in as a volunteer a couple months ago who are in Basse-Cote or Fouta (the other 2 regions of guinea where volunteers are placed). yesterday i finally got a chance to visit the islands- as im sure you've seen in my pictures. they are beautiful and so far removed from the dirty and polluted streets of conakry. i really felt like i was back in florida. oh i miss jacksonville soooo much. OH i want to thank Kristin and Matt sooooooooo much for the awesome care package i got, OH and Dad too because i got another one from you when i got into conakry a couple days ago. i love yall sooooo much and miss yall. i cant believe im missing the wedding but ill be there in spirit haha! i really need (want) someone to send me some contact cleaning solution- no rub disinfectant stuff. i brought 3 huge bottles but i need a couple of small bottles to keep in Conakry and Kankan and Kissi because i visit those places a lot and dont want to lug around my massive bottles. it would be AMAZING!!! and SPLENDA!!! the food here (as yall know) is really bland and so ive been putting a lot of sugar on everything (salt too haha) and im terrified of getting diabetes (not to mention my expanding waist-line haha). that would be AWESOME!!! and as always, goldfish or salty/cheezy crackers/ lowfat pringles, whatev. i love yall so much and am sorry im such a needy person haha. in the peace corps i have literally lost all shame i might have ever had about begging for anything i might be successful in getting. being here does that to everyone. 22 more months...

write me snail mail:) just do it!

random staircase in my village- no one knows who built it or what it led to, but someone said maybe it was the italians. wierd.

a pig doing what he does best- this was taken in Jess's village where there are lots of pigs b/c it is about 1/2 christian (my village is about 100% muslim so no bacon for me)

one of 3 mosques in my village

Jess on a visit to my village. There are so many of these crazy boulders and rock formations all over the area.

a three hour tour;)

jetsetting in style haha!

our runway take two

our runway

us on the boat going home- starting from left and going clockwise- melissa, jim, me and julie- the people in the background are random people who got stranded on the island and hitched a ride with us...

some kids playing in the water on the west side of the island

our beach- sorry that last one didnt show up (hmmm?)

our beach

our basically private beach in a paradise i had no idea existed. AMAZING and untouched. this is the africa i LOVE!

me julie and melissa (who, with amy in the background, was messing around pretending to be african haha) -- this is us in the pirogue/canoe thingy we took to the islands. yes, the lifejackets are necessary, seeing as we are in the middle of the freaking atlantic ocean in a canoe and weather reports dont exist here, but sharks do...

sailing: guinean style :)

there are a lot of these boats off the coast of guinea and i thought it looked pretty with the sunset in the background. i took it as we were riding back to shore in our "piroughue" or smg like that (not sure of the spelling but it is like a big canoe)

The ISLANDS - starting me and going clockwise: Amy (my roomate from Philidelphia), Melissa (my closest neighbor to my village- 27kms away), Jim (a ex p.c. volunteer from Guinea-Bissau who took us out to the islands b/c he remembers what it was like to make a 200 dollar/month salary haha), Julie (another Agroforestry volunteer who lives in Basse-Cote region and was in conakry to have a cavity filled) and Zach (my 2nd closest neighbor who lives 75 kms away from my village)

my straw roof:) and no, it doesnt leak, but there are lots of ants who sometimes fall on me when i sleep if i dont put my mosquito net up haha

my front door...all that wood stacked outside is for the fence we are going to build around a tree nursury (for reforestation) because the cattle and goats are all loose so we have to build fences so they wont eat the seedlings

my hut continues...

my bookshelves i had made and my desk where i read yalls letters:)

more of my hut

inside of my hut (which i painted)...oh, and i sewed that bedspread myself!

my hut after i painted it