Dear Family & Friends,

I'm about to do what has been too usual for me: apologize for a blog silence. A friend is visiting from the US and at first we played and I worked but now we are hitting the road. We are off to Jeju Island and then to Seoul and then it will be the Lunar New Year and then I'm escorting a group of my students to Thailand for a week to volunteer for Habitat for Humanity. My laptop will not be going with me - and believe me and my fingers will spend the entire time itching for it.

There soon will be plenty of new adventures to share with you all!

With love,

Laura

PS: Today's pic: me at an amusement park... you might say that I was getting to know the locals.