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Writer's pictureBarrett Preston Busschau

20.   July, 2024 - November, 2024




Hello :)


How are you?


Summer was nice.  I watched the Olympics and remembered when I was seven I bet a friend that I would be in the Olympics one day.  Dammit.


Anyway, I'm still working in the education department - the cover picture is of me and the guys I work with.  In July we held GED graduation in the visiting room. The students wore caps and gowns and threw their caps up at the end - man those ceilings were low.


I continued to study this summer - less on the hot days. I learned how to change colors and borders in the web browsers. Also, I drew this screen that I need for my app, over and over in different ways. And I started making sense with how to work with dates and times in programming.


On Labor Day there was a “concert” on the little cement slab in the rec yard for people with clear conduct. Guess who performed? THE - incredibly popular, just played at the Emmys and Saturday Night Live - Jelly Roll. Ja, it still makes no sense. But he signed my cap afterwards. #famous


I have 6 months left here - my last day is 6 May, 2025. So, depending on how long deportation takes, I could be back in SA for winter. I’m excited to gather my resources and start my next chapter…






Chapter 50


Barrett stepped out of the plane and took a long, slow breath through his nose. Boerewors? Chops? Yes, someone was braaing :)


Miss you lots. Please send pics.


Love,


Barrett.


Update:    All my worldly possessions - everything I owned - were stored with a close friend. I just found out that, a few weeks ago, all of it burned to ashes - along with all his stuff and his house too…Gone.


So I’ll see you all soon with the clothes on my back: Holy cow.



3 Comments


Nicholaas Kaltenbrunn
Nicholaas Kaltenbrunn
Nov 19

HI Barrett, great that your are still remembering us. I hope that things are well with you considering, Looking forward to May 20254, And I hope trip home is gone be exquisite.. We miss yuo company so we cant wait to have you back again. Do not stop writing ,it is always so informative. Didi passed away from a very aggressive brain cancer, within a day. We are destroyed.. Always thinking of you and pray for goood things to happen to you.See you soon boy!!!!!n Nicholaas & Xavier xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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busschaul
Nov 17

Hi Barrett,

We so enjoyed reading your blog and insight into your current world.

Great photo...congratulations!!

What course did you graduate from?

Sending love and hugs and thinking of you.

Dad and Linda xxxx

😃

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busschaul
Nov 17
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Hope you get this???

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