Monday, January 07, 2008

Beautify CNMI Beautifies San Francisco... Sort Of

My Kwanzaa presents came a little late this year! I found a big, mysterious box on my desk today with the most postage stamps I've ever seen. Turns out to be a box-load of Beautify CNMI t-shirts from Angelo Villagomez, my Saipan-based, Chamaole (half Chamorro, half Haole) conservation counterpart in the CNMI. That's CORAL Mesoamerican Program Manager Rich and Program Associate Anja sporting the pool table green shirts.

Google "Saipan" and you're bound to find Angelo's blog or any of a thousand other ways he's making his mark. The man is a dynamo and catalyst for local environmental conservation, cultural preservation, and scoring as many pictures as possible with scantily-clad Asian go-go girls.

I sent some CORAL t-shirts over to Angelo a few months ago so he provided a little quid pro quo, as long as I could send him photos of our staff in Beautify CNMI shirts while riding the cable cars or standing in front of other San Francisco landmarks. As soon as our deep freeze thaws a bit, we'll head outside in t-shirts for a few happy snaps.

Thanks a bunch, Angelo!

Anja hogging all the Beautify CNMI stickers:

Yours truly contemplating posting Beautify CNMI stickers across all the Mitt Romney for President posters in the neighborhood:

2 comments:

Anja said...

Congratulations and Thank you for the Kwanzaa gift. I hope these pictures don't scare away your readers!

Angelo Villagomez said...

Don't forget to cover the Huckleberry signs, too!