I’ve been overwhelmed. Last week I was in NY meeting with the PR and marketing people at Crown. My anthology, “Female Nomad and Friends: Tales of Breaking Free and Breaking Bread Around the World,” will be out in June and we’re planning a PR and marketing campaign. The people who are working on this are wonderfully enthusiastic. It’s exciting. (All royalties will go to send poor kids in India to vocational schools.) I still have to proof the galleys….they’re that 6″ pile of pages here on my desk!
I’m also pushing to get a Let’s Get Global website up before the National School Conference on International School Exchange that CSIET is sponsoring. I will be talking about my life and introducing the LGG project to local high school students and to the schools that will be attending from all over the country. The conference is in Charlotte, North Carolina on the 19th and 20th of February.
Ashley Tacub sat next to me on the bus from NY to DC. We talked a lot on the five-hour trip, and she’s now helping me with the LGG website, researching gap year programs. Sarah LaRosa, a Peace Corps alumna, is working on the parent section. There is so much enthusiasm for LGG. It seems that anyone who hears about it wants to help. I love the new people I’m meeting through this. I know we’re going to succeed!
Be back soon. Rita
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I’m so glad to hear that their is so much enthusiasm surrounding the Let’s Get Global movement. I would still love to be of assistance in any way I can. I know that you were last searching for ideas about how gap years can be available to all regardless of family income bracket. That is a tough one. I’ll try and think on that one and pay attention to any good ideas that come my way.
Keep up all the hard work and can’t wait for your book to come out in the summer.
So many things click in my brain as I read your post. I taught English to Cambodian and Lao children, I was a member of the Asian-Pacific Task Force in Oakland. this was a long time ago. You suggested research. Tell me more. I’m typing with one finger now. I forwarded your URL to my friend Lisa. I hope her daughter, Zora Bowman connects with Let’s Get Global!
I look forward to hearing from Zora. Did you send her to letsgetglobal.org?