[or-roots] more christmas

[Robert Casebeer]

Leslie, so you were in Iran. When I was teaching at Riddle High School, we
got a new home economist, who was married to the principal at Glendale High
School. She and he had both been working in Iran for a private aid group
long before the Peace Corp was founded...and she and he had great stories to
tell. They subsequently went to Indian at Bombay and helped operate the
Peace Corps in that portion of India.  I have lost track of them.  And one
of the men I hired for Project Prometheus was a Glide High School teacher
who spent time in Iran with the Peace Corps.
And the Jade plant is about ten years old. Bob
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>
To: "Oregon List" <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2005 6:18 PM
Subject: [or-roots] more christmas


> Bob;
>
> Your Jade plant must be pretty old to be that big, as I recall ours was at
> least six or eight years old.
>
> I acutally planned to skip Christmas once while I was in Peace Corps. For
> reasons I don't currently recall I was staying at my site over Christmas
and
> so pretty much ignored it. I had been collecting height and diameter info
on
> a patch of trees and went to work as usual Christmas day. My laborers were
> good Moslems and I don't recall they even noted that it was Christmas day
> when we started working. After I had been working a couple of hours
another
> laborer came walking up to deliver an order from my boss to come to his
> house and "what the heck was I doing working on Christmas?"
>
> My boss was married to a German lady and she had NOT converted to Islam to
> marry him, so I had Christmas dinner with them and took the rest of the
day
> off, Bosses orders!
>
> Then there was the time I showed up late for the Peace Corps Christmas
party
> in Tehran and the head of PC was so glad I showed up when I did because he
> was just about to send my family a telegram notifying them that I was
dead.
> Seems the bus I would ordinarily have been riding had gone off the road in
> the mountains and all on board were dead, including several foreigners.
> Problem was, when I went to get on the bus that morning, too my good
fortune
> the seats were all full.
>
> By the way for anyone keeping track I consider that one of my nine lives.
>
> Les C
>
> PS, I always have a good time on my birthday, it's a week from tomorrow!
>
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