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Oh, btw, I messed around with Orkut. Didn’t spend long enough on there to learn how to navigate. But I did look at your profile. It was nice to see you. I will have to get a pic of myself….my family, etc. :)

You are handsome, btw….many girls probably want to be ‘your girl.’ Not to mention the fact that you seem to have a wonderful, fun personality. :))))

Why doesn’t your mom like the city?

I’m so sorry that you loved a girl and that it was unrequited. That is hard. Happened to me when I was about your age, too….though not the ‘girl’ part, obviously :)

18 million!!!! WOW!!! I can’t even imagine! I’m sure that I would be completely intimidated there!

It’s admirable that you recovered so quickly after the cyclone. I truly think that American people have become rather lazy and callous in many instances. Many of the victims of Katrina were transported to Denver, and people in Denver were rude and telling them to go home….etc. (Denver= capital city of Colorado)

The place where I grew up in the middle of the mountains is Leadville, Colorado. You probably would never be able to find it on a map. But it’s 15 miles south of Copper Mountain/Frisco and all the ‘Summit County ski resorts,’ and it is 40 miles +/- south east of Vail, Colorado….large, ritzy, rich ski resort. I skied everywhere.

Now, I live in Northern Colorado, close to the Wyoming border in a (city to me, but really ‘town’) called Greeley.

Your landscape sounds BEAUTIFUL!!! The landscape in Greeley is not much more than farm land. Where I grew up in Leadville, it was mountainous, crisp air, very nice. Leadville is the highest incorporated town (town with a mayor) in the USA. I have been to Florida, California, and Hawaii. I love the beaches….but just as you said in the email….the ‘grass is always greener….’ I lived in the mountain areas and now in the mountain/plains area… and wish for the beach. If I lived on the beach, I would wish for the mountains.

Actually, I went to college in Alamosa, Colorado….very southern, close to New Mexico. The landscape there was free of mountains, as well….and I got very homesick….not for family, but for mountains. I guess I felt like “Heidi.”

Heidi…don’t know if you know the story…but I will tell you if you don’t

btw, I’m still trying to remember what I was going to ask you or tell you earlier today…. :(

So, what is the landscape/weather/wildlife/people like where you live? Most people in India are Hindu, right?

Sounds like fun to live right in the city. I would enjoy it, but only for a short time. I think I am more suited to small town environments. This town that I live in has 80,000 people, and it feels too big sometimes. But I am getting used to it…it is the biggest town I have ever lived in. However, I do enjoy visiting cities. And I think I would like to be in the ‘excitement’ for about 6 months to a year, then I would need to go to a smaller town. The biggest city I have ever been in is Chicago, and I was completely ‘mind boggled,’ ‘flabbergasted,’ and ‘LOST’ ;)

How big is your city of Mumbai? (I hope I got that right…)

Your mom sounds like a typical mom….just like me. I am always harping on my kids to clean up their messes. They are just little, but I am trying to train them right. My son who is 7 is learning a bit how to cook; he takes out the trash daily. All three of my kids make their beds in the morning and all three of them take their dirty dishes to the sink after a meal. My daughter will help with the dishes all the time. She is always ‘pitching in’ to help whenever she can.

Do you have a girlfriend? To me, so far, you sound wonderful :) A girl would be glad to have you :) AND, once you find that special girl, YOU will want to make HER happy, so you will certainly do things to help her around the house. ;o

Well, it took me awhile to get ‘back’ after saying at the end of the last post that I’d be back….and since it took so long, I forgot what else I was going to ask you!! :(

Here goes another long one….
:)
First, I messed around for awhile with the Orkut site, and couldn’t figure out exactly what I needed to do to get in touch with you that way. I didn’t really spend alot of time, though…just about 5-10 minutes.

Second, I live in a house. It is 3,000 square feet if that tells you anything. I could go into detail about it….don’t know if you care of not….but I really DO like my house. First of all, it’s on the corner of a street, so the yard is big. Then, behind our house is a large park with playground equipment, so we only have to go out our back yard for hours of entertainment with the kids. The top floor of the house has a large master bedroom. It’s big enough to fit the rocking chair, two big dressers and two night stands and a king size bed and a couch. It’s the biggest bedroom I’ve ever had. Off the bedroom is a ‘bonus room.’ My office is in there. Off the other side of the master bedroom is what is called a ‘luxury bath,’ because it has a jetted bathtub. There is a small deck off the master bedroom. Then, there is a hallway with two bedrooms (kids’ rooms….the boys share) and a kids’ bathroom.

Downstairs there is a formal dining room, a living room and a nice sized kitchen. Most American homes these days don’t have nice sized kitchens anymore…with room for all the stuff you need, so I feel lucky to have found this one. There is a deck off the kitchen that looks out to the park/playground. There is a laundry room and a little bathroom off the kitchen.

In the basement, which is unfinished….just concrete….we ‘made it up’ to be similar to what kinds of things we would have in there when we are able to ‘finish’ it. There is a large open space for a big family room. Right now, we have a big ’sectional’ sofa and TV there. There is a place for another bathroom; another big bedroom….and a ’small’ bedroom or ? We want to make this ’small’ area into a guest room with a day bed in it so there is lots of room. We want to put double french doors or pocket sliding doors to this room and leave it open whenever there is not a guest….because we would keep our ‘game table’ in there….shelves with a bunch of board games and a table, for ‘family nights.’ Also, just outside of this area, is another very small area…which is actually a very large closet. We want to make that into a ’study area’ with built in desks and good lighting; shelves and drawers for homework supplies, etc.

Ahhh, I DO love my house. But when I lived in apartments, I had more of a sense of ‘community,’ and I miss that very much. Also, apartments in the US these days are soooo spectacular, with big movie theater rooms, pools, courtyards, common rooms….etc. But I will probably move into one of those when I am old and the kids are gone. I haven’t lived in apartments for several years. I bought my first house when I was 26 and have just ‘moved up’ since then…buying ‘nicer’ houses and making the ‘old’ one a rental…

…More in a few minutes….

You probably wonder, “what the heck….?!?” when I talk about a busy schedule….seeing as how I’m on here all the time:)

But I don’t like to go to my (unfinished) basement…where it’s cold, etc. to watch TV or movies all that often….besides being busy and not really able to sit still for so long…

I don’t think I’ve seen Dark Knight, but I have heard of it.

Do you get lots of shouts on help?

Tell your friend “hello.” If you tell me the name of the book her poem is published in, I will try to find it.

I will try to find ROCK ON. It will probably be a LOOOOONG time before I watch another movie, tho.

Yes, the people on help sometimes ask silly questions. I try to keep in mind that some of the silliness is from kids. And when I first started on help, I read and replied to every single post. I don’t do that anymore. I usually reply to one or two a day. And they have to be ’special,’ like not the usual silliness. Though I do have a couple friends on the site and we ‘banter’ occasionally.

How flattering! I feel special :)

I come on to help….I don’t know what is up with me. I’m getting kinda frustrated/bored wtih help, actually, but it’s a way to kill time and unwind for awhile.

I guess that’s my personality. I get involved in something and I just participate *or whatever* until I end up sucking all that I can get out of it…bad analogy, but I couldn’t think of something better…

except people. I love people.

Like what? I don’t think that I have ever even *noticed* if there are Hindi movies at Blockbuster. But if you give me a title, I will search it out. However, don’t hold your breath…it could take weeks to watch it.

Yes. Colorado. It’s been chilly….the past few days it’s been 55-60 degrees.

I watched a movie for the first time in “forever,” called “Kate and Leopold.” It was OK, I guess. But I expected more…it seemed to be sort of ‘anticlimactic.’

Glad you found it…

I am OK, how about you? Any more motorcycle rides?

One of these days I’m going to watch Forrest Gump to see if the scrapbooking scene is like my experiences with it…to answer that question that you had earlier.

I got your email and I ‘replied,’ so you should have gotten it, but who knows….?

Hey, where are you? :) Is everything OK?

Hey Kos,

I looked at the post and it seems to me that you brought up good points. But, we are here to help, and *maybe* we can change someone’s mind who is contemplating. I hate the suicide posts, actually…it seems so despairing; and I’m with you: someone who is planning to commit suicide will usually plan it out and not tell anyone. But, still, if they mention it on ‘help,’ and I reply to the post, I try to be supportive, ‘just in case.’ But you did bring up some valid points (ie: the person was verified….)

So, was it fun to take a ride? I bet it was. I miss my youthful days.

I am going to cut this shout short, for once :), and get some studying done.

My personal email is lebetfamily at msn.com

I will email you personally later, and by doing so, you will also have my email.

Wanted to ask you about the suicide post? Why are the moderators pissed at you? I don’t know what is going on there. I might try to “follow your replies” later, but right now my family and I are GOING OUT TO EAT DINNER…YAY!!! :)

Well, first of all, your post about believing in God has become quite popular :)

The really sad thing about me and motorcycles…something I don’t want my kids to ever know (b/c then they will say, ‘you did it…now it’s my turn’) is that I rode with guys who were daredevils…..we rode reeeeaaaalllly fast and dangerous. My bf at the time, with me on the back, would do “wheelies” every chance he got….we would go on picknicks to this one town and ride back to our hometown. On the ride home, we would go 110 MPH…and Eric (the bf) would go down the line between the two lanes of traffic at this speed. We didn’t wear helmets or leather…not that it would have helped if we wrecked at that speed… but I’m surprised we didn’t get killed. But it was a blast, for sure!!! Eric ended up wrecking his bike about a year after we broke up…broken bones but nothing too serious, luckily. He stopped after that. Also, I think he has kids, too, and that changes how you feel about being reckless. I also rode with Rick, and there were a couple times when we were on a steep mountain trail that he had to “dump” me….I had to slide off the back of the bike so he could lay it down. Nowadays if I did that, I’d break my tailbone…

Yes, as long as there is no test at the end, I agree.

I did some scrapbooking like what you described before I learned of these other types of scrapbooking groups. And yes, comparatively speaking, the ones I’m involved in now are definitely professional scrapbookers. It gets horrendously expensive and creative and intricate. But it’s a wonderful creative outlet for me. I am actually going to a friend’s house tomorrow night to scrapbook all night. And there are a few men who scrapbook here, just not many. Actually, it’s a big “home based business” thing and so men have “gotten into it” to make money, partly. There are so many home based businesses in the USA…part of the capitalism, I guess.

Your US cousin who lives in Detroit? Are they able to visit often? Have you ever visited them? Seriously, if we keep up this electronic pen pal thing, I would like to see you if you ever visit the USA. I would love to visit India one day…just not sure if/when…

So, if lightening hit the building, did you have a big storm? Is all OK now? We had a big storm here in May…a tornado came through and wiped out a town…and when we drove to where it was, the tornado hit a park where my friend and I took our kids all the time. And the majority of where it touched down was within 5 miles of our house. Funny thing is, when the tornado was coming through, I was on the other side of town, not knowing it was coming, and I felt “funny wind,” and I was 20 miles away. If you want, I’ll explain better…just don’t want to bore you with a story unless you want to hear it. Then, 2 days after, my kids (the 5 and 7 year old) and I went to help in the clean up efforts. It was sobering.

Take care,

Jill

I grew up right in the middle of several ski resorts. The town that I lived in was 10, 152 feet above sea level. We had snow 9 months out of the year. So, yes, I did ski often. When I was a kid, my parents only paid for me to ski at the “cheapest” resort; which was local. Once I “grew up,” I skied everywhere. I got really good and I was a “black diamond” skier…meaning I could go on some reeeeeaaaaalllly steep and bumpy hills. But, it is quite expensive. To go for one day and just get on the ski lift is over $50 (if that means anything to you…I don’t know how to convert it…) and then lunch (b/c you gotta eat when you ski) and the clothing….a ski outfit could run around $400…and the equipment is around $100…then the drive to get there (and fuel here is expensive right now) and the parking pass so that you don’t get towed…yes, it’s expensive. I had all of my own equipment back in the day… I still have my old skis, poles, and boots. However, since I am heavier, the skis are “too small,” and wouldn’t work for me so I would have to rent. The reason that skis don’t work if you gain wt is b/c the ski needs to have some “give/bounce” in the middle. Therefore, the heavier you are, the longer ski you get…it’s a physics thing…

I USED to write poetry. Now I just read it (:

I do like to cook…but only FOR people. I like to do it as a way to serve/show love to people…don’t know if you understand it, but it’s how my Granny is, too. She cooks and shows love through it.

I used to have a boyfriend when I was getting my bachelor’s degree who was a motorcyclist. I lived with friends (a married couple) and they were avid bikers, as were all their friends. Boy, I remember those days with fondness…and could tell lots of stories, too.

I like to read anything I can get my hands on and anything I have time to read.

Scrapbooking…also another fairly expensive hobby. It’s a really popular past time right now for suburban housewives. It consists of purchasing these exhorbitantly expensive photo albums that presumably “preserve” your precious photos for over a hundred years…of course, I won’t be around to discount that…Anyway, women get together and they make these very unique photo albums with expensive paper, etc. There are die cuts (patterns); special pens; special stickers…you just make a personalized unique book with your photos, decorating the pages and all. Alot of women will sit for hours and do it…there are even “all nighters” where groups of women will get together at hotels and scrapbook through the night. It’s a fun social activity that is harmless (no alcohol or partying…) and the finished product is a great album that you can treasure. You still may not ‘get it’ even with this description, because I am not really explaining it well. You would “have to be there/have to see an album/have to feel the sense of community with other scrapbookers…”

Well, I’m off to do some studying…

Take care,
Jill

yep. Big gap… he’s 50.

I was up ALL NIGHT LONG last night and now it is 3am and I’m still up. And I have to be awake at 6:30 am so I can get a shower and feel “fresh” after these last two nights…and then go and do scholastic stuff till 4pm. Hopefully I don’t fall asleep.

My hobbies: I used to LOVE skiing, before kids. I used to go 4 times a week. I was slender and had a very nice athletic build. But now I have had three kids…I’m about 25 pounds heavier than I was when I skiied 4 times a week. And I miss skiing. But I don’t do it anymore b/c there is no time; there is no money for “frivolities;” and I would have to travel, since I no longer live within 20-30 minutes of six great ski resorts. Also, since my body has changed, I’m afraid to get on skis. But I think about it alot.

So, since I don’t ski….
well I love to scrapbook, it makes me feel so creative. I love to take walks and go to playgrounds with my kids. I love to be a “mommy.”

I like to hang out with friends. I love to cook nice big dinners for friends. I also like to read, write (compose poems…I think I could author a book, actually);

…and I really like it when I can LAUGH hysterically. (:

He refuses counseling…on one hand he feels as if he doesn’t need it. Then when he starts to see “problems,” he acts like he can be all manly and take care of it himself.

I have thought about counseling just for myself, but I am sure that the counselor will tell me to divorce. Don’t want to hear that.

He is 15 and 1/2 years older than me…

To your shout about “regarding the discussion….” I know…I am really NEVER the kind to let others’ conversations of me get to me. Just like I’m usually not as….”sensitive” as I have been on these shouts lately. But, I guess to use the most recent popular term of late, I’ve been “emo” lately for some reason…sorry :s

And regarding the post about my husband…no he’s not violent. He doesn’t even “fight” with me very often. That’s probably the real problem…he has NO emotion and it drives me crazy.

:0) :0) :0)

btw, do you remember when I took a “sick” day? Well, as it turns out, one of my other classmates, the mentor I’m with, and the coordinator of my program had a discussion about me. Apparently, as far as I can gather, they made some speculations about my life; which, in my opinion, is not OK unless I am there, too. The other classmate who was part of the discussion has no children and lives in a tiny apartment…nothing for her to do other than to submit her life fully to the scholastic schedule…They have no idea about anything, and, yes, what I am doing now is difficult, but it is a far cry from being among the most difficult things I have faced in my life. They just have no clue what they are talking about…unless and until I am part of the discussion, too.

I missed class on Thursday b/c I had a migraine that started on Wednesday night. And the mirgraine was definitely a physical symptom to stress b/c my husband and I had a horrible fight…It’s not something I can’t handle, tho’. I can handle my life very well. I am a “pro” at making sensible decisions. I just needed a break; I don’t see anything wrong with that… I am not the only person in my cohort who has taken time off. And I “made up” the time on Friday.

[sigh] I better quit writing about this b4 I get angry about it, which won’t solve anything.

Have I not left you a thread for when you come home before? I hope not. I try to get on “help” pretty often…although in the past week, I am not really on it as much as I thought [nor as much as I told you ;)] I would be….seems like a few things have happened.
1. I’m not really in a “helpful” mood lately;
2. Homework (ugh…thought I’d be on the puter more often…and I am, just that I have to discipline myself to do homework related stuff….)
3. I really, really need to clean my house, and that will take HOURS…it’s bad right now.

btw, have you seen my new avatar? It’s my two oldest kids about two years ago. I only have a few pics on the puter…my husband did it long ago; I need to learn how to put pics on the puter on my own so that I can update my avatar.

But then, again, I’m scared to put their pics on the internet…you hear all sorts of horror stories…do you think that I am just super paranoid? I’m sure that complete strangers…pedophiles (there goes that American phobia again) can’t do anything with this little avatar…and they don’t know where I live…? Right? I’m just being paranoid, right?

I hope I didn’t leave you without a thread…if so, I am so sorry. I will write more often. I have come to think of you as a good friend, already. Really quite amazing to me, b/c I didn’t think that it would be possible without being able to look at someone and read their body language and their facial expressions…yet, I feel like I am genuinely getting to know you and I like you.

Now, I have written another book…don’t my “books” make up for anything….? Just kidding. I know how you felt, too, if I left you without a thread. sorry.

i had pen pals too… but mostly in india itself. i had only 1 from outside, from holland. i had met her on a camping trip on a hill station in india itself.
so jill. nice to no ur real name :-)
its the same with me…
my name is kaustubh. during a maths class sum1 yelled out an equation cos cube, which was remarkably similar to my name
from that day i was cos cube and shortened to cos.. changed to Kos…
hehe

ur right about the pedofile.i no wat u mean..
but

hi..
no problems ya…
actually my aunt who stays in the states has come down to visit.
also my 2 cousins and some other relatives. so i was busy talking to them and showing them the sights and sounds of mumbai.
;-)
so wats up with u? il respond to ur earlier shout tomorrow ;-)
kos

Hey, are you there??? First time I haven’t gotten a ’shout’ from you…hope you are OK and not sick or something…

Take care, and hope to hear from ya soon,

Jill

Well, I really don’t have migraines often. I have only had 2 in my life. My asthma has been around since I was a little kid; and it is no worse…it is actually better than it has ever been…thanks, mostly, to some great medicine that I am on.

You are so right about America in the 1900’s. It was pretty poor. There were different ethics then, though, which I think would make this a better country now if they were still around. People back in the 1900’s were interested in family, integrity, hard work, honesty, and had a “salt of the earth” kind of attitude. I think that our country would still be a great place if those values were still important to most Americans. I cannot tell you how “lazy” most Americans have become. I guess it’s b/c we “have it so good,” and that makes people complacent, but it irritates me, still.

I’m certain that India will be a great nation soon. I will keep my eye on India in the news, since I now have a friend there:)

When I was a kid, I had pen pals from Japan; Malaysia; and Zimbabwe. None of those pen pals lasted into adulthood. Looking back as an adult, I can see that those countries were in bad positions…Zimbabwe had many wars; Japan…I don’t know what happened to that pen pal. I think she was just really depressed b/c back in the 1980’s, she was going to school a horrendous amount of hours and had to “perform” well, and she wasn’t performing so well, so I think she quit writing so that she could concentrate on school more. I actually quit writing the one from Malaysia b/c I got busy with boyfriends and all that gunk…:s

My name is Jill…in grade school, everyone called me Jelly Bean…(like the candy); then it just got shortened to Bean. Then, in my 20’s, there was a name brand candy that I got a taste for called Jelly Belly, and my boyfriend at the time started to call me Jelly Belly….that is how I picked my help.com name; mostly b/c at the time I couldn’t think of anything else///didn’t think I would really end up “hanging out” on help; but I’m addicted to help, now.

Yes, the pedophile thing was really kind of a “joke,” as in I was trying to talk about the only type of person that I really don’t like…BUT, you also have to remember that I have three LITTLE kids, so it is something that I am watchful of. Still, you are right, that we mention them wherever we can…:)

Whew, another “book” from me….

Well, I don’t really think Indians are superior to Americans. I think all people are pretty equal (with a couple of exceptions such as pedophiles). On the other hand, I think that even though Americans and Indians are equal, there is a problem with the average American…thinking that they are “better” than anyone else just b/c of where they were born. And that just isn’t true, there are many things that other ethnic groups or nationalities are better at. Just as there are some things that Americans are better at. I just feel like I, for one, don’t want to be one of the “superior” Americans; and I have “humbled” myself, in a way, over the last few years, because we are certainly not the only people on this planet…

Well, I don’t think you sleep amongst rats and rodents…but there are plenty of people in the world who do have to sleep outside or in poor conditions. Such people really need help…not from America (b/c America’s way of help is sometimes questionable), but from other people who “have” more and who can help from their hearts rather than from a governmental///what can I get out of this///type of help.

Daily meds: I have asthma. Have had it since I was a baby. I have it worse than everyone I have ever known who has asthma. I hate it; try to “not” take meds for it to prove that I don’t have it or that it isn’t that bad…but when I don’t take meds, I end up in the hospital. I cannot tell you how many times my parents (when I was a kid) and now me as an adult, have been told that I wouldn’t make it through the night. I got on some really good medicine about 6 years ago and it has changed my life….I can run and live pretty normally. Just prior to that medication, I was in the hospital, and they told my husband that I was going to die. That is the last time that (die thing) has happened. But, for example, I cannot be around most animals….if I am around horses, even now, I end up in the hospital…allergies plus asthma thing. Last year, we moved into a new home, and the woman who lived here had lots of pets. It was a pretty bad situation for me…

But, the reason I was sick today was b/c of a migraine headache. I have only had one of those before in my life…about a year and a half ago. It is horrible. But I feel OK now. I think it was stress related, b/c 1. I am so stinkin’ busy lately with so much on my plate; 2. my husband and I got into a fight last night…worst one yet. I felt physically sick during the fight…I just felt so “down” and dejected that I am not really surprised that I ended up having ‘real’ physical symptoms in the form of a migraine headache. But today I took some meds that made me ‘loopy’ b/c they are pretty strong narcotics to get rid of a migraine…thus, I couldn’t go to the classroom this morning ;)

Like I said, I don’t really think you live in poor conditions since you have talked about your life previously….and you have a computer, for example. But I think there are plenty of people who live in poor conditions and the only analogy I could come up with quickly in the last post was the fact that they live among rodents (which I am very allergic to, btw). Which really wasn’t a good analogy, I don’t think, I was just trying to type fast. But they do live in “squalid” conditions…compared to what I live in.

What’s a value addition course?

Oh, well, I better get off the puter. I need to make sure I am all ready for my practicum teaching tomorrow; can’t miss another day.

G’night and take care

I think being an engineer is a great deal…and if it is so “common” there in India, that just proves that there are many more people in India with higher intelligence in that area than you think.

I love that saying: “educate the boy and you get an educated person; educate the girl adn you get an educated family” I will keep that in mind when I feel like I am running out of steam….because I am really at my rope’s end right now. In fact, today, I was supposed to student teach…it’s only my second day of that, and I had to call and tell them I couldn’t make it. I have been feeling kinda sick; but even when I’m sick, I usually still go to class and do what needs to be done. Today I slept in til about 11 am. I have not done that in YEARS. But, maybe I just needed the “break.” I look around me and I am so overwhelmed by all that I do…I really am feeling like I am “sinking.” Not with grades or professionalism or anything, I am able to “hold it all together” for the public eye, but, well…

I do worry alot. About everyone and everything. I don’t think I am all that unusual. Most of my girlfriends are pretty similar.

But, I really DON’T know much about what goes on outside my country. I need to learn more. I wish, as I said earlier, that I could go to a country that is developing, or in strife in some way, and just volunteer to help. But then, I have that old “American” attitude that creeps up…b/c I need daily medication; I am afraid of sleeping with bugs/rodents, etc

College was quite fun for me, too. But, I had to work full time to put myself through college, so it wasn’t as fun as it could have been. Instead of going to movies at the college center, I had to go to work. Instead of partying with the college crowd, I had to go to work. Instead of having study groups, I had to go to work and then come home and “cram” study. But, all that aside, it was still a wonderful, fun, exciting, liberating experience.

Take care, talk to you later.

:)

Weeeellll, I guess I’m a doofus, for saying the “medical doctor” thing. I just kina assumed since you didn’t know about the US grading system, you wouldn’t know about the degrees. But that was actually mighty silly of me becuase YOU have an ENGINEERING degree (pretty impressive in my book), and degree designations are pretty much recognized everywhere, I assume….not sure though.

I didn’t know much about degrees for awhile. I guess I was a product of my environment since I grew up in a family that doesn’t value education. I am actually the very first person in my entire family (aunts, uncles, grandparents, siblings, parents, and cousins) to go to college at all. After I got my degree, I had one cousin who went to college and got her bachelor’s degree. So my mom “vaugely” knows that I am going back to school; but she doesn’t understand why…or what it means for me to be working on my master’s degree…

I do worry about corruption. It, along with everything else that happens on this earth….child labor; poverty; gangs; drugs; crime; loss of natural resources; and and on.

But don’t think I’m a “worry wart,” I actually have lots of fun and am quite spontaneous at times. It’s always just that there is usually some sort of “issue” (or more than one) at the back of my mind.

So, you have finished your education, right? Aren’t you working now? If so, do you enjoy your new job? Or is it stressful…learning “the ropes” in a new place?

Well, I need to get some homework done and my son has soccer practice, so I’m off…

Take care, talk to you later…

Well, not a MEDICAL doctor…only an educational doctor…will hve the DOCTORATE DEGREE…Ph.D. But I am currently working on master’s degree, not doctorate…not yet anyway

My classmates vary in age from 24 to 45.

I don’t really (personally) think the US government conspired 9/11, but there are some here who do think that. Altho’, I do think the government is corrupt in many ways….as is all government, truthfully.

:)))

Oh yes, I also wanted to mention something to you. You remember WAAAAYYY back in the olden days when we first began to shout at each other??? Well, you talked about your eyes changing resolution, and in one of the shouts, you described how things got smaller…

I really think that used to happen to me as a kid. I would suddenly feel “really big” in the room I was in b/c everything else seemed and looked so small and far away. It was a really weird thing and freaked me out. I remember it happening when I was sick. But it has not happened for years and years. Do you think it is the same or a similar thing?

As far as political leaders having agendas of power in the US…I believe it is very true…maybe not killing for the sake of power.

However, there are many people here in this country who think that the terrorist attacks on 9/11 were orchestrated by the government.

How have you been, by the way?

I had my first classes for the new semester today….whew! Brain overload for me!!

I am in a cohort of 16 people. We all began this study together and are going through all classes, practicums, etc together for the next year (at least….longer if some of us get our doctorate degrees.)

Anyway, one of the girls in my group flunked out last semester. (Semesters: We had one semester that was a group of classes that ran May through mid August; another semester is now through mid December; another semester is January through May…) Anyway, she just found out today that she failed two of the classes last semester, so she is out of the program. It was heartbreaking for me…so I’m sure it was heartbreaking for her.

Hi Kos,

good morning.

There has been a bit of a debate on “help” tonight about Christians being persecuted. I was wondering, since you live in another country altogether, what your thoughts/experiences/observations are on the subject. Do you see Christians being persecuted in India?

Thanks for your help.

Hope you have a great day

Good night to you. You are so kind. And I do smile :) But thank you for your nice chatting. I will talk to you later, too.

Yes, but mostly at night; because I will be busy in class in the day time.