To All My Online Friends: Thank you so much for your wonderful friendship to me while I've been living here on Okinawa....I have never lived on any kind of an island in my life, so this came as quite a shock to me...I couldn't think of how to thank everyone really, and had no idea how I would get everyone a gift, and then "Star Registry" came across to me...I got a Star in the Sky for all of my friends on here so we'll be friends throughout eternity no matter what...I decided to call this one the "Friendship & Amore" star... <"Friendship & Love Star> I couldn't leave Italian out of it no matter how hard I tried...I hope this will print out okay for those who want to print it out...I have the framed original on my wall...I look at it and pass by it everyday here...I keep the small card with me...It's about the size of a credit card...The star chart that shows where our star is..I have no idea about...maybe someone will be able to read it and help me find it one day...I've never read star charts, but just the thought of us sharing a star in the sky, with all of us living all over the world, it will always be up there no matter where we end up living...I am only here for today and tomorrow then leave for Tokyo....I just returned from the resort here 10 minutes from where I live now today....I had such a wonderful time, and love that place tremendously....It went very fast, but nothing I could do about that....I loved my time there.....I have to take my computers in tomorrow while I'm in Tokyo so I won't be able to be online...I'm also taking in my laptop while I'm away...Word leaked out to me, that there is possibly a cyber cafe where I'll be staying so I hope I hope that is true so I can keep in touch and chat with you all....I decided to put this on here today since tomorrow will fly by like it's not even happening, and I have to catch the flight to Tokyo too early for me to remember right now....I will be in touch though!!! thanks again everyone for your friendship and for such awesome support while I've been living here!!!! have an incredible night!!!!
100 Places To See In Your Lifetime-Heaven On Earth#86-Paris, France♥-"If one were to choose a single city to represent Earth in an intergalactic competition of urban splendors, The City of Light would be a most worthy candidate. With the Seine providing a steady pulse, Paris♥ has for two millennia been a center of cultural and economic activity, all carried out in an atmosphere of accomplished beauty and grandeur, coloured through with indelible romance." I HAVE BEEN HERE TO PARIS FRANCE!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I didn't want to leave either and they about had to drag me on the plane back to the US when it was time for us to board our flight!!!! I got to go all over Paris and LOVED EVERYTHING that was there...That was when I first realized if you aren't popular on one side of the world, mainly me always being stuck with Americans, try another side of the world, and you are like a celebrity....I never had so many people talk with me ever in my whole life until I went to Paris, and I made so many new friends, and loved it..I didn't want to leave....I wish I had been born there or something or had family that lived there so I could have just stayed there....I also got to go to some part of Italy there, all I remember really are mountains and a small shop, then to Geneva, Switzerland....Loved every ticking moment of those as well and still can't give them up....I feel like I'm married to these places or something that's how much I love them....I can't wait to go back there and I hope it's soon....definately worth it, definately worth struggling with words I wasn't sure how to pronounce or make sense of myself, but just worth it cause you remember it forever....I stood right under the Eiffel Tower and loved it...I used up an entire roll of film then, when we still loaded our cameras with film....That's when I decided I didn't want to give that lifestyle up....there is just tooo much out there to stay in one place your whole life!!!!!!
Message in a Bottle Survives Epic Journey
Last year, a high school student named Corey Swearingen put a letter in a bottle, sealed it up, and dropped it in the Atlantic Ocean, off the Florida coast. It was kind of an experiment for school. In the letter, he appealed to whomever came across the bottle to contact him and let him know where in the world it showed up. Amazingly, someone did.
About 16 months after the bottle was dropped, Swearingen's marine science teacher heard from someone in Ireland. The letter had made its way across the Atlantic Ocean and washed up on the shores of the Emerald Isle, found by a 17-year-old and his Dad while out for a stroll. In an interview with Florida Today, Swearingen said he never expected the message to be found.
Can't blame him for pessimism. After all, the wine bottle, which, according to Swearingen, is being put up on display in an Irish pub, did face long odds. But it's hardly the first message in a bottle to survive a perilous journey.
In 2009, a message in a bottle washed up on the shores of England. It had been tossed into the waters near the Bahamas nearly five years previous. Incredible, but that pales in comparison to a bottle sent by Emily Hwang. True, Hwang's bottle traveled "only" 1,735 miles from Seattle to Alaska, but it took an amazing 21 years to do so.
There's even a case of a message in a bottle helping a family find a new life. In 1979, Dorothy and John Henry Peckham dropped a message in a bottle in the Pacific Ocean while on a cruise. Amazingly, the bottle found its way to Southeast Asia where it was picked up by 31-year-old Hoa Van Nguyen.
Nguyen wrote back and began a correspondence that eventually led to the Peckhams helping to sponsor Nguyen and his family's immigration to the United States.
Eat your heart out, email." I can't waittttt to try this again when I go to Tokyo...I tried it once or twice before...I put a letter in a mouthwash bottle
Check out what my husband and his friends did to one guy who is leaving Okinawa for good like I will be in a couple more months...I was so furious I couldn't be a part of this!!!!! I was just like "WHY DIDN'T YOU COME AND GET ME!?!?!?!" That is too funny..I would have loved to have joined in with something like this and put make-up on him as well...I know they would flip out if they knew I posted these, but I couldn't get over how funny this was...They tape you up, then pour sticky food all over you..honey, whipped cream, coffee grounds, and I'm not sure what else, everything that would definately make me gag like crazy if I smelled all that together....I have no idea what they are going to do to me when we're about to leave here, but of course they never tell you....I go along with whatever it is!!!! It's all for fun as it is....I think it's all funny, so I don't care just as long as I get a very hot shower afterwards!!!!!
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