I'm Back Home Safe & Sound - "Thanks a Million"
I reached my sweet home Madagascar, Monday, 9th January 2009 at about 16.30 p.m after attending TED 2009 conference helded in Long Beach, California from February 4-8th, yet somehow the flight felt like more than 20 hours and not one hour from Los Angeles L.A.X to Paris CDG - Mauritius and finally landed in Antananarivo Airport. Jetlag has me in its grip as I am sleeping deeply for few hours stretches and then wide awake... so let's blog and be productive :)
Photo: looking at Mont blanc from the plane, thinking of my TEDfriends, missing TEDtime ...
The situation here seemed to turn out not as what I imagined and wished weeks ago before flying to Long Beach, obviously due to a political crisis and social revendication even far from reaching my expectation.
The first day back home are all about getting equilibrium back, listening to the latest news, responding all the e-mails and posting some blog entry to inform my world wide TED Fellow, friends and family that I am safe. Also, I have MEGA Challenge to run and low cost food to put in our domestic market ASAP for "PEACE"... well, my humble action as a TED Fellow to conserve, renew, and rejuvenate the gifts of our unique biodiversity that we have received from nature and ancestors, and to defend and hold these gifts as our common heritage.
I'm wishing for more happiness and peacefull world to come for all of us from now and I will be a better us with stronger faith and patience from day to day. To balance out the memories of being proudly part of the most prestigious Fellowship Program in the world and meeting with amazing & minded Actors, Thinkers, Doers and Believer of a BETTER WORLD.
HUGE thanks to YOU, to TED community, to the Sponsors particularly for the wonderfull Gifts ;) Best wish for the Nokia new challenge, in order to help us communicate and push our ideas further as wide an audience as possible, to the bloggers: especially my Numero Uno blogger and friend Ethan Zuckerman for his Support and Care, twitters, Facebook contacts, friends and family around the world for helping me so far .
Special thanks on this note for Ushahidi Team / TED Global Africa fellows who crowdsourcing Information on the web - by putting Madagascar in the map and informing the current situation of the country in different issues, also for my malagasy fellow bloggers, active members of FOKO Madagascar partner on this projet.
FOKO and USHAHIDI are TED Global Africa BABIES.
I can say, the house will be fine (soon) since the world won't let Madagascar down. I know it is true because I feel it. I am now in my process of editing and trying to get back to blog ( I have quit six mounths ago for a break ), looking for an inspiration and high speed internet connexion in town and will be back more often here with more positive vibes.
-------> THANKS A MILLION :)
