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For everyone who would like to receive some short updates on the latest events and stories happening in and around our lives, I decided to start providing the “René Jaun and Leo in Missions” Newsletter!

If I stay disciplined, you should get frequent updates - like once or twice a month - sent directly to your email inbox. And NO, I will not bother you with pages and pages of stuff to read. They’ll be quick, fun and informative. Doesn’t this sound awesome?

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Update:The first issue has been posted on November 29th, but it’s never too late to join our community and subscribe!

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Update: Added English translation and pictures on November 23rd, 2007!
When I decided to write this post, I was standing in front of our small post office here at the University of the Nations in Kona, holding a letter in my hands, which the postal service had returned to me. “Requires postage” was written on an acompanying note. And they had added an excerpt of their conditions of delivery, too. It was the result of my first try to send out a letter as “Free Matter For The Blind” here in the United States. I must have missed to follow one of the rules (here you get them as a pdf), but nobody (including the assistant of the postal service, whom I called for clarification) could exactly point out, which one it was.

This was the moment in which once more I started wondering: Somehow, accessibility and services for the blind did not seem to work the same way here in the USA as in Switzerland. I always seemed to have these strange things happening to me, whenever there was an accessibility issue involved. Do other blind people around here feel the same about this? Or am I doing something wrong?
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Check out The Article by Beverly Thomas on The YWAM Connect Network. It is an interview she did with me a few days ago. It features Leo, my (oh how miserable) life story, including my faith testimony, as well as a summary on what I’m doing here in Kona. I think only registered YWAM Members can view the link above. I will try and make an alternate version available when I’ve got the time. If you are or were a YWAMer and can’t find your way in, Let me know.

(Sorry My reports have been coming so late and so irregularely; the huge variety of places, events and facilities prevent me from fixing one certain time to blog, so I just report whenever I get to it)
If you have been reading the last post carefully, you probably know some of the more important tasks I had to fullfill today. The day was to start in Longbeach and to end in Mexico. Inbetween laid a stop in San diego (or its surroundings I should say) and some talk with Dan Kish about possible future Swiss seminars; then, you add some food and some rather strange stories and you are almost there. Well - let me just give you the details now:

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Well, don’t even try asking me how and why our second day could start that weird; I only knew that when I was woken up (by the sound of my dog Leo having a drink), my watch said that it was some minutes after four in the morning; after finding that I could not fall back asleep anyways and therefore getting up, I discovered that my computer on the other hand had the opinion of it being shortly after nine already. One of these watches had to be wrong - but which one? How does a blind person who is supposed to have a jetlag find out if it is early or rather late in the morning? I must say that I did struggle with this issue for a little bit, since not even the internet who could have for sure told me seemed to work in this very moment. In the end it was the phone, confirming my sad suspission: My computer was right; my other watch (including the alarm clock I had set) must have jumped back five hours somehow during the night and I found myself hardly having any time left before my bus would have gone.
Yes, this day did start up kind of turbulent - and unfortunately also without complimentary hotel breakfast But it still ended more than satisfying.

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