Last week Georgia Popplewell, Global Voices' Caribbean Editor, Co-Managing Editor, Podcast editor, and all-round blogger extraordinaire, wrote a beautiful and hilarious post on the occasion of her one-year anniversary working with Global Voices Online. It begins like this:
My dear GV friends:
This coming Friday will mark a year since I wrote my first piece for Global Voices. Some days prior to that date, I’d received an e-mail from a mysterious individual with a Japanese surname and a Spanish nickname. Would I care to cover the Caribbean for a web site called Global Voices as a volunteer author? he asked. The whole thing sounded time-consuming and rather byzantine, if you asked me, and what if this individual, with his unlikely combination of physical (a little Googling had revealed him to be sandy-haired and freckled) and transnational attributes, turned out to be a Keyser Söze
Yet, against what seemed, at the time, to be my better judgement, I agreed to add this to the already complex mix of potentially missable deadlines and things that I do. I wrote the first article. Then I wrote another. And another. Within weeks, my dreams had become populated with green adinkra symbols; I was mumbling the GV tag line in my sleep, spouting the GV Manifesto at cocktail parties. . . .
Read the rest, it gets even funnier. If anything, the people who contribute to Global Voices are an amazing collection of characters.
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