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Last reports on Noah came from Palestine (no pun here), where he had lived in 2003. After enrolling at Arizona State University in a doctorate program in Ecosystems Ecology, he returned to Hebron on the West Bank with the Christian Peacemaker Teams in 2004.

Have you ever wondered, what became of Stephanie from Kalamazoo?

Stephanie Wilks is from Michigan and is a great person to have around if you’re making a campfire! She went to Kalamazoo College where she studied art and education, then worked as editor of Earth Focus magazine at Peace Child International in England. She held the prestigious Talent Show Coordinator position at the 2003 World Congress of Youth in Morocco and recently edited a publication about global defense spending entitled Whose Priority? while in India. After teaching for two years in public schools, she moved to New York to begin working with the non-profit sector and has been interning with GYAN since February.
[steph (at) youthlink.org]

source: 11 Apr 2006, Google cache

UPDATE 2009: Mr Chawatama reports his current whereabouts: he is studying environmental policy at the University of Cambridge! That’s 800 years of science behind him…

2006-12-26:
Long lost in Africa, but now reappeared: Mr Man, Ronald Chawatama!

After graduating with a BSc in Agriculture and Natural Resources from Africa University, Ronald is currently doing a Masters degree in Integrated Water Resources Management at the University of Zimbabwe.

New category… old theme: I’m opening a new category on this blog called “Kalamatzo“! Who would have thought that?

Here, I’m going to gather all the Kalamazoo related, useful and useless information that comes up on my travelings through the web… Mostly, this will concern my friends of 2000/01!

The 25th of June — an important day in history? Because Ecuador is playing soccer against England today?

No! It was five years ago that frankenschulz had to wake up from a dream, finding himself on the Frankfurt airport, back in Germany — back from Kalamazoo!

In honor of this great anniversary, and in honor of this great place — well, let’s say the great people, we’ve met there — somebody should deliver a speech and a toast, right?

I’m not a good talker, so I went back to a better one and found a very appropriate poem by Carl Sandburg for you guys (note that it was already written in 1922!):

The Sins of Kalamazoo

The sins of Kalamazoo are neither scarlet nor crimson.

The sins of Kalamazoo are a convict gray, a dishwater drab.

And the people who sin the sins of Kalamazoo are neither scarlet nor crimson.

They run to drabs and grays–and some of them sing they shall be washed whiter than snow–and some: We should worry.

Yes, Kalamazoo is a spot on the map
And the passenger trains stop there
And the factory smokestacks smoke
And the grocery stores are open Saturday nights
And the streets are free for citizens who vote
And inhabitants counted in the census.
Saturday night is the big night.
Listen with your ears on a Saturday night in Kalamazoo
And say to yourself: I hear America, I hear, what do I hear?

Main street there runs through the middle of the twon
And there is a dirty postoffice
And a dirty city hall
And a dirty railroad station
And the United States flag cries, cries the Stars and Stripes to the four winds on Lincoln’s birthday and the Fourth of July.

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29 january 2006

a new moon
marks the lunar year

welcome the dog

looking upon the same moon
where ever we all may be

and on the dark side
is a crater name fitzgerald

– uto iha

Rock’n'Roll is dirty, Baby, and without MUD its festivals would be almost as clean as a Tyrolean Heimatabend (any translation for that?)

Found by Karina Liebenstein in the November 25, 2005 magazin of Germany’s newspaper Sueddeutsche!