Little Miss Runner Pants

oooh.

SEX!!!

now i'll bet that caught your attention!!!

unfortunately for all you pervs out there (which by my guess would be.... MANY!) this is not a post about my love life. or my sex life. or any other part of my life... (my mom reads my blog people. what exactly were you expecting!?!)

this post is... for a higher cause.

this morning, as i sat down for work and checked my email (because.. that is absolutely the first thing i do everyday. far more important than anything my BOSS would ever have me do. i mean please.) i had the pleasure of seeing Noames' address in my inbox.

Noames, of 26.2miles vs. naomi, for those of you that are unawares, is hands down one of the funniest bloggers out there, and because she moved to Africa many moons ago to pursue a career in journalism (my hero).... any email with her name on it gets top priority.

today's email was more than just a funny story though. today's email had a purpose, and it is that which i will share with you now, by.... basically copy/pasting what she sent me.

see?! i'm journalism material too! (oy.)

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ok actually, how about i summarize!? m'kay..

basically, noames has this friend, Marie-Suzanne, who after the umpteenth girl from her village got pregnant, decided something needed to be done. she's organized a safe sex/anti-AIDS workshop in her village and.. because its not my story to tell, i'll let Marie-Suzanne tell you about it in her own words...

which noames has translated from french because.. she's a genius.

My name is Marie-Suzanne Seck. I live in Mont Rolland, a village in
the Thies region. I am twenty years old.

I have found that the girls in my village are not very aware of AIDS
and early pregnancy. I want to do a workshop for this in August,
because all the young people are there for a festival. I am writing to
ask for help.

In my village, I know 15-year-old girls who have gotten pregnant. At
fifteen, you have many boygriends and you do not know which one got
you pregnant. If you say to one that it was him, he will say it wasn't
me. If you say to another, he'll say it wasn't me. And then you will
be obligated to raise the baby on your own. Sometimes the family
understands, sometimes they don't.

As for AIDS, I had the idea because we did an anti-AIDS workshop one
time in Mont Rolland for that, and I thought to myself that we should
organize many to help young people and speak to them about illnesses.

For the activities, I would like, first of all, that the young people
discuss together. Afterwards, I want to have two skits, one for AIDS,
one for youth pregancy. After that, we will pose questions, and if
someone gets it right, we will give them a present (for example, a
condom, or a ticket for a dance night that we are organizing that
night). We will also have some singers. I have asked a friend to
write two songs : one for AIDS, one for youth pregnancy.

The evening, I want to have a dance party for the young people to
encourage them to come. It will be free for everyone who came for the
day's activities. If someone else would like to come, they will have
to pay 500 CFA (about $1).

I have already reserved the hall and I have started to organize the
details. But I don't have enough money to do it all. I have compiled a
budget, and in all, the workshop and party will cost about $200. I
hope that you could help.

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as you can see... a worthy cause. all they need is about $200 bucks. by my sitemeter i know my average daily visits hover around 185 - 200 people (depending on subject matter. yesterday's post... apparently not all that interesting! who knew.) so if like.. one in five of you donated $5 bucks... that'd be it. right there.

if you'd like to help...

naomi's requested that you use PayPal.... just go to your account, hit "send money", put in her email address

which is naomims AT gmail DOT com , type in your amount, click on for GOODS as opposed to the other options (otherwise paypal will take out something stupid like 12% of your donation) and... badaboom. your good samaritan act for the day is complete!!!

and really.. this is not a hard process. i just tested it out and.. its rather fool proof. so give it a whirl.

and for those of you that just REALLY REALLY want to know whats going on with *me*...

army guy and i drank last night.
today's run is going to hurt.
more to follow tomorrow...

NOW GO GIVE!

wha'cha waitin' for?