Happy Thanksgiving from Brooklyn!

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! Merilee, Emily Giles, Joaquin, and Stephanie spent Thanksgiving together yesterday along with Merilee's friend Jessica and Emily's parents at Merilee's lovely home in Brooklyn. Merilee was, as always, a wonderful hostess. The meal was fabulous and the conversation was lively.







We hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving!

bella

PC Malawi Health '04-'06 Patrick Padgen has moved to Honolulu, and about a month ago he and I met for dinner at a Thai restaurant.

Thanks for the Smokies pics, guys. Wow.

My update is that I'm working on my first application to graduate school/fellowship.

Now, my pad is at:

894 Ninini Wy
Honolulu, HI 96825

So, there's this soccer store on Oahu called 'Rogue Soccer.' I bought a ball today!

I recommend the film 'Bella,' as it is a good story and the best film I've seen in a long time. It might not be in the theatres much longer.


Tranquilo,

john

Lonely in London

Okay, I'm not really lonely, but it alliterated AND caught the eye.

So I haven't been doing any fun hiking around North Carolina. I've just been working. My mom came for a visit a couple of weeks ago which was good since I got to do all the touristy things. We saw a really good play called "The Woman in Black" which is a ghost story. Good and scary.

And for Thanksgiving Lisa and I are meeting some college friends in Vegas, with a side trip to the Grand Canyon (I've still never seen it!).

Having said that, for Xmas we don't really have any plans. Lisa and I are staying in London. If anyone wants to visit, let me know. We have a decent air bed.

Ryan

PS. I've just started an interesting book: Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures). It's about three different people working for the UN in conflict zones. So far it's pretty interesting and well written.

Ahhhh Beautiful North Carolina

North Carolina is beautiful this time of the year, or at least it was last week.

Mr Schmidt and I took a little time off last week to visit the Great Smokey Mountain National Park. We spent 3 days hiking, camping and enjoying Milo. And along with camping, comes camp fires. Almost 2 years after later, we are able to make start a fire using 1 match and no plastic paper. All of our camping neighbours had huge roaring fires aided by copious amounts of lighter fluid. But how can you cook on such a fire? They don't. The others had camp stoves. Booooo!!!

PF