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Posted a link to our movie on the navigation bar to the right. We made it while stuck at our training site for a week following the land mine attacks which took place in the country in December. After a couple days we realized that we had very little to do up there and maybe four movies to chose from: XXX: State of the Union, Zoolander, Grease, and Love Actually... We became very familiar with each one as they continuously cycled through the DVD player.

If you haven't seen XXX: SU, here's a recap. Action, Action, Action, and some plot about killing the president during his state of the union address. It's bad... But it has some good Samuel L. Jackson bad-ass-ness in it. So being in a desperate state for entertainment and having a part-time film school student (JT Simms, director/actor/producer) at the helm we set to work to make our own. Originally we were going to try to mimic most of the movie, but as projects of this stature tend to, this film took on a life of its own.



Le Monde Update:
I convinced the office here to let me use one of their phones to call France and complain about how they haven't taken care of my subscription yet. Struggled through an entire phone call in French, which was tough, but the fact that I could do it is encouraging. By the end they told me they had changed the subscription and put through a transfer of the money back to my credit card, should be upwards of $700 coming back to me, which will be nice if I ever decide to go on vacation over here.

Speaking of vacations; Kelsey will be coming in July before she takes up her place as the new elementary music educator at the American School of Kuwait. I think we're going to have a month together, spend a couple weeks in Niger, Niamey, Gaya, see the giraffes, and then go to Ghana (?). A months not a whole lot of time, but it will be extremely nice just to see her after a year apart (nice would definitely be an understatement). My first real visit from the outside world. Still feels like this is a totally removed life over here. In many ways it is, but life over there goes on as well. Like Kyle, my cousin, getting married and unfortunately, unlike my lucky sister, no one here is going to buy me a plane ticket home for it.

That's it for the moment, check out the video!