Gale, What an amazing opportunity to help and explore Colombia. I wish you safe travels and lots of positive experience. If you are creating a Blog I would love to follow you and share it with my students as well. Saludos, Kate On Sat, Nov 9, 2013 at 1:32 PM, Gale Stafford <gale.v.stafford@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Hola OWL, > > I met many of you this summer at the Boot Camp, but to all whether I > have met you in person or not, I wanted to let you know that this > coming Wednesday I will be leaving for Colombia to be an accompanier > and human rights observer for a year. I haven't figured out if I will > be blogging or just emailing about my experience, but if you are > interested to know what I am up to, email me (just me!) at > gale.v.stafford@xxxxxxxxx and I would be happy to send up the general > updates to you. > > So of course, if Colombia, or any of the political or cultural > activity there, comes up at school, I would be thrilled to be in > contact with you or your classes about any of the work I am doing, or > any of the language and fun new vocabulary I'm encountering (de > verdad, es mi favorito)! It will definitely work through email, and > probably by Skype, though I will update on that. Don't worry about > burdening me, either, because PR is actually part of my job there! > > Hasta pronto, amig@s, > Gale > >