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Favorite thing: Spend time getting to know the locals! If you don't, well you've missed the oppertunity of turning a holiday into a life long memory.

Fondest memory: I know this sounds strange, but it was the day I left the villiage where we'd spent the previous 4 weeks. As our taxi made it's way down the narrow ground road a young girl threw a letter (with my name on it) through the taxi window. I opened it and the tears came streaming down my face as I read it. She wrote:
'Dear Jackie, I write because I didn't want to see you to say good bye. I'm too sad. I have no school shoes so I can't go to school. Thank you for the soap you give me. Betty'

I left that day feeling very sad, the local people I had met and loved somehow managed to ingrave their names so deeply on my heart!

I will be returning to visit them in January 2003...