Hello everyone, it's Karyn Simmons here

Hi Rick

It is just great to hear from you and Michelle and I really hope to come along to the reunion. I have such good memories from the Genesis days and am trying desperately to remember everyones names and faces!

I have been living outside Australia for a long time - since the late '80's - so don't spend much time on the Darling Downs apart from (rare) quick trips back to see the family in Pittsworth. We are in Thailand and spend weekdays in Bangna, on the outskirts of Bangkok where our two girls go to school and weekends and holidays near Pattaya where we have a place at the beach. We have spent time in Singapore, Korea, France and England courtesy of Murray's job as an engineer with a British company and are very entrenched in expat life!

By a really strange coincidence I helped to organise a drama festival at my daughter's school last year - shades of Genesis - only this time the students came from all over south east Asia and had a fantastic time spending a few days together working on a production. It was the first time I had thought about Genesis for years (and years) and remember telling my girls all about it and how lucky we had been to be able to do something like that as 'country kids'!!

Look forward to hearing all the news and let me know if anyone is living near me!

Karyn


Karyn has kindly permitted Rick to share this email with you all!
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