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NOT KIDDING!  Apparently my sister-in-law wrote a little something for the queen’s website a couple months ago, thanks to our persistent little cousin who is living in the UK.  So D wrote this “blog entry” about what the Commonwealth means to her – and it went on the Queen’s website.

An excerpt:

I am from Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. I recently graduated from university and moved to a small northern community where the winters are long and cold, and the skies are perpetually a crisp clear blue.

I currently work for an aboriginal run non-profit organization as a Youth and Family Program Coordinator. During these winter months I have to bundle up in a wool parka and mukluks for my walk to work through temperatures plunging to -45 degrees celsius.

When I arrive at work I complete reports and paperwork, and in the afternoons I spend time with a group of about twenty aboriginal youth, many of which have had troubled lives. They come into the youth center where I work to use computers, play a game of pool, or visit with their friends. I hope to find a way to positively touch their lives in the time that I share with them each day.

OK, cool. 

But THEN yesterday in her inbox she gets an email from “Elisabeth R.”  I kid you not.  It was the first or second email that she’s ever sent to the public.  Isn’t that neat?  So I told her she should send some pictures of her family back and tell the queen about the issues that are important to her.  Heck, she has email address.  Why not!