oily beaches...

[Crawford A Mathieson]

Our old friend google can help. Go to www.google.com and select the "Images"
option, next to "Web". Then type a name like, "santiago" or "scallop shell"
or something similar. They have lots of images with those names so pick one.
  -----Original Message-----
  From: Road to Santiago Pilgrimage [mailto:GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU]On Behalf
Of Sofia Wahlstedt
  Sent: 19 January 2003 21:04
  To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
  Subject: oily beaches...


  This reminds me of something I've been meaning to ask you all, do you know
anything about the oil situation today, after the 'Prestige' accident? I
have, like Lia, been thinking about helping with the cleaning of the beaches
after I reach Santiago de Compostela. If I can be of any help, that is.

  And a second question, a bit silly but anyway, do you know somewhere on
the internet where I can find a nice picture of a shell? I won't use it on a
homepage or anything like that, I just want to use it as a background
picture on my computer. A reminder of what I'm doing and why...

  Sofia


    ----- Original Message -----
    From: Lia Laura Puglesi
    To: GOCAMINOaPETE.URI.EDU
    Sent: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 7:40 PM
    Subject: Belated Introduction


    I am so sorry: I guess I read that I should introduce my self when I
joined this forum about ... Mmm may be one year ago? but I dont remember. I
have posted several times and read everything else everybody body has posted
, among them, many introductions. I apologize for my my bad manners

    My name is Lia Friedman, I am originally from Argentina and currently
living in New Jersey. I planned to walk el Camino when I was about 19 years
old (I am 27 now) and finally my husband and I are going to start on May
15th 2003 in Vezelay (or Clunny, still not completely sure) and we expect to
arrive on Santiago around July 20th, before the Patron Santiago festivities.
(July 15th) which are also very important in Mendoza the province where I
come from, so important that nobody goes to school or work that day.
Santiago is the "Patrono" of my province but for some reason I didn't made
the link between our "patron Santiago": and Compostela until a couple weeks
after I knew the story about Santiago de Compostela.

    I wrote down in the book of things I would like to do in my life
:pilgrimage to compostela" but it wasn't until I saw a pilgrim to santiago
in Mount Saint Michel in 1998 that I felt urged to plan the trip.

    Even when I am a psichologist (well, I'll be when I finish my thesis), I
am very interested in anthropology and ethnology and I am going to
specialize in migration and transcultural issues once I get my degree. I
felt always very passionated for everything related to the Medieval Time and
prechristian europe, from music to hystory and literature and the social,
political and economical aspects.So, el Camino has become a sort of
"cruzade" for me in a good sense. I am very happy I am going to meet some of
my friends I haven't seen for the last 5 years and maybe make some new. We
are also going to offer ourselves as volunteers in the efforts local people
are making to clean the seashore after the Prestige oils spill. It breaks my
heart to think that was something completely avoidable and so many animals
and people are suffering as because of it.

    Thank you very much to all of you for having provided my so much useful
information.  I hope every bidy has a great experience there.

    Lia.
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