From: mamckean@duke.edu [mailto:mamckean@duke.edu]
Sent
: Sunday, May 29, 2005 12:07 PM
To: cclark@duke.edu
Subject: Maya's birthday!

 

Charlotte -- just thought I would pass on the word from Maya, who is having

a fantastic time in El Salvador. In addition to the wonderful pictures

you've got on the web, which include Maya with her gorgeous birthday cake,

we got more news Friday when we talked with her on the phone.  She said

that she and Kathleen were awakened on Friday morning with the sounds of

40-50 people singing outside their house, a Spanish birthday song, to go

with the dawn, and it was absolutely wonderful.  She couldn't have had a

more magnificent birthday than that!  She says her homestay mother is the

sweetest person on earth, and she had a telephone conversation with her

homestay father, whom she hadn't met yet.... because he is working in

Durham NC!  She was stunned when he greeted her on the phone, not in

Spanish but with "How are you doing?"  So the local links here with La Isla

continued to multiply.  Thanks again for the great web page!  Best,

Meg & John