<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="text-align: center;"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px; font-weight: bold; ">Sugar on a stick is exactly what I will need - once my XO arrives. </span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>I am 59. Use a Mac. NO IDEA HOW TO DO A THING regarding programming, etc. </b></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>In fact, I can not understand how to use our volunteer "team" site, so, I use OLPC Facebook !</b></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>So. </b></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Why write you ? I offer myself as a "tester." </b></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>If I can understand "Sugar on a stick" , kids can too !</b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>I am an ESL ( retired ) teacher. </b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>My strength is P.R. for OLPC. </b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Adam Holt has helped me by directing me to make a contest for our children. It is tentatively called " One Laptop Per Child First Annual Global Contest. "</b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Based ( loosely ! ) on the Olympics - GOLD, Silver & Bronze ribbons & certificates will be awarded for each of these categories : </b></span></font></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Comic Sans MS'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>math</b></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Comic Sans MS'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>art</b></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Comic Sans MS'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>science</b></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Comic Sans MS'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>poetry</b></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Comic Sans MS'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>film</b></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Comic Sans MS'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>music</b></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Comic Sans MS'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>photography</b></span></font></div><div style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Comic Sans MS'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>short stories.</b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Comic Sans MS'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Comic Sans MS'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b> " Smilebox " founder may assist in allowing us to use the company's site, providing OLPC children the vehicle to submit their entry. </b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Comic Sans MS'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Lucida Grande'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Comic Sans MS'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><img height="480" width="480" src="cid:2A6D6F8A-71CE-4CE1-AB6D-139E236752E3@wcgwave.ca"></b></span></font></span><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>For . . . </b></span></font><span class="Apple-converted-space"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b> </b></span></font></span><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>the world's poorest children </b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; min-height: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; min-height: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Goal ? Give each child a rugged, $199, low-power laptop. </b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; min-height: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Connected to each other,</b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>to the world and to a brighter future;</b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>they get engaged</b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>in their own education.</b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; min-height: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; color: rgb(0, 0, 153); "><span style="text-decoration: underline; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><a href="http://laptop.org/en/participate/ways-to-give.shtml">http://laptop.org/en/participate/ways-to-give.shtml</a></b></span></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; min-height: 16px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; min-height: 16px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; min-height: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; min-height: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Thank you all !</b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 9px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; min-height: 13px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b>Coline</b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 6px/normal 'Comic Sans MS'; min-height: 9px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Helvetica; min-height: 14px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="'Comic Sans MS'" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br></b></span></font></div><font class="Apple-style-span" size="4"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 14px;"><b><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></b></span></font> </div><br></div></body></html>