whee!
I got up extra early this fine Saturday morning to talk to my sister Erika in Kyrgyzstan! She's been staying with a fellow volunteer every other weekend, and that family has a phone. I managed to get through and we gabbed for over an hour. it was the nicest thing ever, to be able to hear my sister's voice for only the second time since October, through a huge network of tiny little wires (or whatever they're using these days), traveling all the way from Kyrgyzstan to San Francisco.