So, as I am assuming most of you know, Tommy is out and about as of 2 weeks ago. He seems to be mentally stable, although one can never be completely sure... Fund raising is moving forward quite well. A big thank you again to everyone who has given so generously online. I was also recently given a substantial donation from someone at WFP (hint: he's French and smokes like a chimney...) so I am definitely going to want to put a WFP logo on the car somewhere (assuming of course that we do in fact have a car - I have no idea). Well, a WFP logo should be on the car anyway seeing as how they are one of the leading humanitarian agencies in the world today....Also, it appears that Alex has also landed us another contribution, although from who I dont know. Good work as always Alex, keep it up!! Life on my end has taken a turn for the lonely. The people closest to me all just left within 24 hours of each other, my immediate family included. I have never actually been left behind by my parents in a country where we have all lived. It is a strange sensation. There were weeks of farewells for my father, literally a function everynight. Then there was the mass selling, packing and shipping of 11 years worth of stuff...Then it all ended with a bottle of champagne, a few close friends, and me dragging my little bro home from a bar where seemingly his entire school had assembled outside to say good bye, hours before his flight departure. Intense. And then they all left, leaving me on this island for 3 more weeks. I feel like a ghost of my former self - I feel like Im not really here, that I too took off on that plane...Well, I will be taking off in 3 weeks so I suppose as always patience is the order of the day... We have opted not to try and sell t-shirts, for a myriad of reasons, but as far as I know a kick-off celebration of some kind will be held in VT before the State-side crew takes off. They know more about that than I do of course so they will be in touch. Hope all is well in your respective worlds. The count down really has begun...finally.