The name of my last post "Last Weekend of Fun" sounds so final, like I'll never have another one. Things to write about come a little slower now that I'm back in familiar territory, but I feel like I've come back with a full cup. I'm nicer and less anxious. Ditto for my cat, Mr. Gursky. It's like I'm living with a different creature. Maybe, just maybe, he was reflecting my nuttiness? He wants and has to go out and explore every day at the same time. It seems like my needs are not so different. And five years was a little too long for me not to "go out".
Apologies to my mother for this need of mine. She called me on my layover in Chicago and her first question was, "Are you back on U.S. soil?" My dad is a little more subtle. While I waited in Chicago, he called me on his way home from work, like he often does, just to catch up and tell me that, per the usual, we'd meet up somewhere for dinner on Tuesday night. He'd be in touch. Bless them for trying to be supportive. They had no idea when I was a teenager and bristling under their boundaries, how far I was itching to go. Neither did I.
I get itchy too. It's hard when I can't go as often as I like. The good news is that Ryan gets almost as itchy as me. It works.
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ReplyDeleteMy name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately it’s impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this I would ask you one small favour:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Tajikistan? I understand perfectly that you think that your e-mail is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Tajikistan in order to complete my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and a original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Avenida Juan de la Cierva, 44
28902 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com, where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely