Wow....

I didnt hear from Sol in a long while but finally few days ago i got in touch with him and turns out he is gonna start school and also had been sick but had a speedy recovery from his cold. And we are back on track again with the letters. And i think this time he said he had more letters ....im excited to hear that more kids are interested. My girls Jas and indi is happy too that our project is slowly but surely pickin up speed. Im going to write a proposal to the teachers to see if they will be included in this project seemed that when i brought it up this fall in school there was a space for this kind of project in school. So now i will patiently wait the letters. :D Im thankful and happy for Sol being my partner in this i know i can always count on him and get good feedback on ideas. Im also starting to look into how much a house to rent would be to get moving on the afterschool activities.

I receive the letters from the kids in sweden atlast

Its been like three weeks since my partner teresia have sent the lettersthat she collect from the kids in sweden, we were all worried because it takens longer than we expected it to be.
but thank God they finally arrived and i receive them its 4 letters and 100 kroner for the posting of the reply to the letters back.

I have give the two letters to fatou and mam sanneh, as they already have a two other kids that they have been corresponding to already and now the two letters will be given to others two kids as soon as possible.

Worried.....

Its been a while now since i sent the letters and still they havent reached Sol. I am hoping that they just delayed cause of all the other mail being sent being december and all. i dont want the kids to wait and get bored with the project if the regular "snailmail" dont work i need to start gettin DHL to do deliver it for me. I wonder how i can make them look for it? I will give it another week

Gathering of letters to send...

...sadly enough it got delayed ...to send the letters back but finally its ready and i will send the money too. Tonight 24th of november it will be interesting to see how long it takes to get it there. Both me and Sol was surprised that the letters here took only less then one week they had told him about 2 weeks. So now we will see if they are as fast this route too LOL. The money for Sol to buy stamps will also be included and i know Sol is a little worried they will mess with the mail since we sending money in it. I will send just little incase it will be tempered with. Im glad tho for the children that are gettin so involved with this idea of mine. And everyday im thankful for the help i have of Sol he is really representing The Gambia big time.

Sulayman Serrekunda The Gambia

My name Sulayman known by many as Sol, I live in the Gambia with my family, am one from an extend family system here which is a normal family system in Africa especially The Gambia, presently am the eldest son living together with whole family.

Me and Teresia have been good friends for a longtime now, there was a day we was in a conversation and she told that she  have come up with an idea, that she have been discussing with her two daughters  about a project, this idea was that, the kids of Sweden and the kids of Gambia, helping each other through corresponding and learning from one another, I told her yes that is a great idea and that I have always dream of someday I have the capabilities of  helping the younger generation to get the thing my generation and the generation before was not able to have. I agree working on with her on this idea for the very first time she told me about and I told her I will be willing to do the best I can to make this project progressive and I know this can also be a way for me to fulfill that dream of mine to help the younger generation.

I think there can be a lot of things these kids can learn from each another, in terms of cultural differences, day to day living, family life, which all be education for them. I also realize this is not going to be a simple task as I have never been involved such activities like this one, but so far so good I think I am coming up. Was able to explain to few kids in my neighborhood and they were ready to a friend from Sweden, but now me and my partner in this have discussed and we came to agree that we are going to make it a school to school corresponding, I will be meeting a principal of one of the school as I already make this appointment, to explain to him about the project and the goals of the project.

The start is the hard times of it I know with time if everything worked as planned we will finally get fulfilled the dream and the good intentions for this young kids. I am the giving and will be giving all my support to make this possible and a successful one. My partner Teresia has been doing well so far with her two daughters since from scratch.

I will be responsible on updating the day to day activities of the project taking place in The Gambia on this blog. Thanks

Sulayman.

School

I was at a meeting in school today with Indigos teachers and we was talking about her progress in school but also i got the chance to present this project very quickly for the two teachers attending the meeting and they seemed interested. So from this i will try to get a small presentation together and hand it in to the principal and see if they will be willing to include this somehow into school work. And i wanna try to start planning on how we could gather some material for school to send it there...and also afterschool activities like soccer, basket...i need to talk to Sol about what he thinks....will be getting back on that later

Time for sending it back

From two people to five......im going to send the 5 letters to Sol to hand out to the kiddies down in The Gambia. The letters will be sent out tomorrow.  In this package we will send a long some money so that Sol dont have to pay for the postage himself and also cause we know that the kids themselves dont afford it so we decided to send them in a bunch and as soon as the kids have answered the letters. Easier for us and the kids...