American visit

Most of you are aware of the budding partnership between my homevillage and Halfway in Oregon. Today I was visited by the main contactperson in Halfway. I love having visitors -especially now when I don't have the opportunity to travel myself. I'm also amazed at how nice the people involved in the partnership are (well, so far I've only met two of the Americans involved...)! Spring brought me a necklace she has made herself (see photo) - lovely beadwork, thank you!!

I'm beginning to look forward to the day when I get to travel overseas myself to meet the rest of the Halfwaypeople! But until that, it'll be nice to keep in touch via email, now that I have met someone from Halfway in person (and I hope Joy reads this as well and keeps in touch!). I'm also going to write an article about the partnership for the local paper - my first article in a year (apart from a letter to the press last summer)!