WOW - a thousand thanks!

i am blown away by the generosity and outpouring of support i've received from my call to dig deep! thank you thank you thank you to all who have donated to the cause (and all who have told me they are going to, or they are trying to!) i am well on my way to my goal and with your continued generosity, i'll be able to take care of everything i NEED and everything i WANT - likely with some sponsorship money too! thank you to those of you who have forwarded my blog/request to others who may not even know me but who are giving! (i don't recognize all the names of the donors, how exciting is that?)

all is well this week in the gambia. i've not posted much about this, but jason arrived yesterday (safe and sound, if a bit jetlagged, those charting his whereabouts). i could have written a paragraph or two in each post up until today about how excited i am ... but i thought i'd better not for fear of sounding like a broken record (i can't wait. i can't wait. i can't wait. i can't wait. i can't wait. i can't wait .... you get the point).

so we're both in the internet cafe, but i don't want to take up too much of the little time we have starting into the window of this ancient block of a computer). i booked us into the hotel/bungalow on the beach and we had a lovely stroll along the atlantic last night watching the beautiful muted pink sunset, and dinner on the terrace of the 'paradise beach bar'. tomorrow i'll take him to the village where he'll get to see the nursery and meet the elders, as well as the family i live with and experience a night with the roosters, donkeys, crickets and me. then monday morning, we'll head into the school so he can see where i'm teaching and meet the toothless deputy head, then onto brikama (in a gellah gellah!) for a wander through the market, an omelet and nescafe and my local 'cafe' and a taste of 'big city' living. and then we are splurging at another bungalow-type place in the south of the gambia, near the border of senegal (in kartong) where we'll have three days and nights on an empty, idyllic beach!

so ... as you might expect, i'll likely be rather quiet until next weekend after i've seen him off and my last six weeks here begins. apologies to those of you who have emailed me who i've not responded to - i promise a long session in an internet cafe next weekend. it's hard to believe i've reached my half way point here. at first it seemed like this would never get here, and now it seems that the end is just around the corner - and i've SO much more to do. especially now that i know it's all going to be possible, thanks to your generosity!


for fear of losing the momentum, i'll just repeat how you can donate here, so it remains on the 'top' blog - but more details are below in the 'dig deep' post.

i have set up a paypal account called 'help meagan build a nursery' and it's VERY easy and safe to donate. simply click HERE or go to http://www.paypal.com, click 'send money' and type in the following details in the box on the right.

to: helpmeaganbuildanursery@gmail.com
(that's 'help meagan build a nursery' (all one word) @gmail.com
from: your email
amount: as much as you can!
for: tick service/other

it will take you to the next page where you can either sign in (if you have a paypal account already) or fill in your credit card details for donation.

this money will be deposited into my paypal account where i've instructed paypal to send the money to my account so that i can use it immediately.

A MILLION THANKS FROM THE GAMBIA!