We have an organization on St. Kitts that was started by a Ross student a while ago called St. Kitts Sea Turtle Monitoring Network. If you go to this website or download the search toolbar and use it as your usual search engine, any charity that you choose (based in the US) can receive $0.01 for every thing you search. I highly recommend choosing the St. Kitts Sea Turtle Monitoring Network as your charity. The Leatherback Sea Turtle, Green Sea Turtle, and Hawksbill Sea Turtles will thank you :) They are the three sea turtles that nest on the beaches on St. Kitts (there was one other species that they recently found nesting on a beach, but I don't think it's confirmed yet that they live here) and they are all endangered. I am trying to get more involved with the actual program next semester so you should get involved too by donating a penny every time you search. You don't pay anything and you are on the internet all day anyway. :)
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Great job, Katie! I love reading your blog - I hope everyone is continuing to read it also. TTYS - ILU
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Good morning how are you?
ReplyDeleteMy name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately it’s impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this I would ask you one small favour:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Saint Kitts? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Saint Kitts in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and a original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Calle Valencia, 39
28903 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com, where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely