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Gidday!!

Crikey. Been a while. Hope we are all well.

First off, congratulations to our newly re-contributing to a civil society punter Richard "Mirror Glass" Archbold for securing employment as a building-drawer in sunny London-Towne. Mirror Glass baby, acres of Mirror Glass. What spells "success", "modernity", "zing" and "longevity" better than Mirror Glass - preferably of a lovely blue shade. Zing!!

Secondly, congratulations to our enormous long-haired-2-inverted-triangles-chiselled-out-of stone-new-breed-of-superhero Joshua "who-re-routes-the-routers-dammit-my-cpLog-fails-to build" Elliott who has dropped out of gainful employment and is off to sunny Europe. Fly my pretty, fly!!

All this movement eh? Grand.
Us? Pretty sedentary actually. Weather warming up, work coming along right nice. Yeah. Things are swell.

Met a fascinating woman at work the other day. In her fifties, shes a long time friend of one of my co-workers. Ten years ago she met a Bangladeshi exchange student through the organisation I work for and has kept in touch with him ever since. He was studying at a nearby University and has since graduated and returned home. He was lamenting to her a year or two ago about the state of his village and the plight of the low caste kids that live there.

So.....this woman BUILT AND STARTED AND FUNDS a private school for under priviledged kids in the middle of Bangladesh.

"Hey lady!! You rule!"

It cost her 90,000 yen (NZD1100 at this accursed exchange rate) to buy the land, build the one-room school, employ two qualified teachers full time, buy the kids supplies, outfit the place, and run it for its first year. All together now...

"Hey lady!! You rule!"

We all trooped around to her place for Bangladeshi curry the other night. It was bloody good. She insisted we eat with our hands. It was super fun. We are currently collecting drums, cymbals, triangles (quite simply the dopiest "instrument" e'er there were, apart from the accursed Theremin) and the like so they can have music classes. Fun.

Righto.

Take care.
Mucho love
Berin