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jodee   30

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Currently Im reading:

The Power of One, By Bryce Courtenay

Book Description

"Unabashedly uplifting."

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Set in a world torn apart, where man enslaves his fellow man and freedom remains elusive, THE POWER OF ONE is the moving story of one young man's search for the love that binds friends, the passion that binds lovers, and the realization that it takes only one to change the world. A weak and friendless boy growing up in South Africa during World War II, Peekay turns to two older men, one black and one white, to show him how to find the courage to dream, to succeed, to triumph over a world when all seems lost, and to inspire him to summon up the most irrersistible force of all: the Power of One.

Ive read this book 3 times already, this will be my 4th time. Its a brilliant book, that explores racism, during the times of Apartheid in South Africa and the will to overcome the boundaries, that divided black and whites.

Previous to that, I read Angels and Demons, and the Da Vinci Code. I was a lil disappointed in those two books. Same writing style made the second one tolerable but boring.

Jodee

"When a man is educated, an individual is educated; when a woman is educated, a family and a country are educated."

— Mahatma Gandhi

The timeline... (Frankfurt) for the kids visas

10/22/2007 Filed I-130 x 2 in person + paid 710 USD (355 each )

10/22/2007 Filed DS-230 part 1 x 2

10/22/2007 Received the document checklist and FRN (case) numbers

12/18/2007 I-130 petition approved, but I didn't know. I was away at the time, didn't get confirmation letters til I got back from the states.

12/20/2007 Notice of Approval arrives in tha mail. According to the date received stamp on back of envelope at my post box.

Will now wait til hubby is back from Iraq to fax in checklist readiness, even though, I have been ready since day of lodging I-130's. all except medical.

02/18/2008 Faxed the "checklist" back to the consulate.

02/25/2008 Medicals completed.

02/25/2008 Appt letters in mail for appt on March 7th. Cant go due to prior military commitments. Emailed consulate and received an amended appt date of March 12th 2008.

03/12/2008 Visa interview - APPROVED x 2

03/27/2008 Visa's finally generated. I emailed the consulate. they apologised for the delay. They forgot to issue the visas after approval.

03/31/2008 Received visas

04/26/2008 Flying out of Frankfurt to next duty station on orders.

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An oldie but a goodie- Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad

Americans travel to Europe, the Holy Land and Egypt mid 1800s- great insight into the American mentality still relevant today

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24 March 2009 I-751 received by USCIS

27 March 2009 Check Cashed

30 March 2009 NOA received

8 April 2009 Biometric notice arrived by mail

24 April 2009 Biometrics scheduled

26 April 2009 Touched

...once again waiting

1 September 2009 (just over 5 months) Approved and card production ordered.

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"The Fall of Berlin: 1945" by Anthony Beevor. Great read.

I read that 3 books ago. Great read indeed. So many soviets were sent to the gulags for just being captured by the germans. That inspired me to read the following:

'One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich' and now I'm reading 'The Gulag Archipelago' both by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

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"The fact that we are here today to debate raising America’s debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. It is a sign that the U.S. Government can’t pay its own bills. It is a sign that we now depend on ongoing financial assistance from foreign countries to finance our Government’s reckless fiscal policies."

Senator Barack Obama
Senate Floor Speech on Public Debt
March 16, 2006



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The United States Of Europe: the new superpower and the end of American supremacy.......

A somewhat interesting read into the rise of the EU ..... if you like that kind of thing :lol:

http://www.***removed***.com

http://britishexpats.com/forum/

http://www.myspace.com/welshcookie

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