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| From: "Jessie Wheeler" <[email protected]> To: "Ima Figment" [email protected] Subject: Re: Where are you now? Hi, Ima. So you want to know what happened to me after Captain Planet went off the air. Got a couple of hours? Ha Ha. Seriously, it's a long story. After the cartoon was zapped in "96, Gaia said that we could stay on Hope Island with her until we could stand on our own two feet. It worked out great for about four years. We finished our high school educations online, and Gi, Linka, and I were looking into colleges. Kwame and Ma-ti wanted to go back to Africa and South America to do whatever they could for their old villages, and they were the first to go in late 1999. Things started to get turned upside-down and backwards for me around the spring of 2000. I had just finished some online courses and earned my two year degree in communications. I had found some colleges with excellent creative Arts departments, but I realized I needed to live in state for six months to a year before applying. This way, I would have an easier time affording the tuition and other stuff. Linka really zoomed through her college courses, and she was a semester away from her four year degree in computer sciences. It was when she talked about going to graduate school in Russia that I realized we weren't going to be together anymore. I couldn't stand the thought of being without her, and I popped the question to her. She just took my hand and told me she couldn't marry me. She said that she felt I was proposing just because she was going to move, and that that was a sign that I wasn't quite ready for marriage yet. I told her that wasn't true, but she insisted that it wasn't the right time for either of us. By the end of the summer, Gi was back in Asia, working toward her Master's in marine biology; and Linka wanted to move back home with her brother while she got ready for grad school. I was the last to leave Hope Island. I was really attracted to a school in Florida that had a great Creative Arts department, and it drew in students from all over the world. I felt like I was going to crap myself when I read the tuition costs. So I guess I wouldn't be going to school full-time. I got myself a job as a DJ at a radio station that played music that appealed to the Gen-X crowd. It's kind of fun, but I really want to be a cinematographer and make videos that would move people to care for and clean up the environment. I'm still in my junior year because I could only afford to take one, maybe two, courses per semester. Ever since I had that dream about having eight kids and deep debt, I have been avoiding getting into situations where I owe people Bo cups bucks. As a result, I have been trying to put myself through college without having to resort to student loans. I am so not in the mood to be in debt through my fifties. If things go the way I want them to, I think I will be a senior by January 2004. Hopefully, I will graduate in another year or two. My finances may start to look better by the beginning of the New Year. I really hit it off with a guy in one of my classes and we're going to be roommates after the holidays. He has a two bedroom Townhouse and needs a roommate that doesn't drink or smoke that can split the expenses with him. It's perfect; he's the president of the environmental group on campus, and he said he would let me wave my dues if I burn him some DR. Demento CD's. That's about it for me. If you can send me an email with Linka and Gi's email addresses and Kwame and Ma-ti's snail mails, I would appreciate it. I had a computer virus about a month ago, and I lost everything on my hard drive. I was able to reinstall all my programs, but any personal info was lost. Tell the others I said Hi. Bye, Wheeler |