People deserve to be kept up to date. I am terrible at writing people emails, and hate writing the same thing over and over again. I hate sending mass emails. I should keep a written record of adventures through Asia and elsewhere.

For all these reasons have I started to blog. My intentions are honorable. Write once or twice a month telling of adventures and exploits. I will attempt to include a picture or two.

So, lets start blogging people.

I am Emily, you know me already. I just got back from Seattle, two weeks of eating, celebrating, and visiting were had. It was wonderful. That said, I am so glad to be home in Vietnam where things move at a considerable less hectic pace. It's really nice to return and really feel like this is home. The apartment was right where we left it. The breakfast restaurant is still open, though others along the street were not so lucky. Business turnover is exceptionally high in this city.

Christmas has come to Ho Chi Minh City. I was so hoping it wouldn't. Instead there is an abundance of cheap and tacky Christmas crap for sale on every other street corner. The grocery store is pumping the usual holiday tunes, which it turns out are much more bearable when sung in Vietnamese.

Winter has also come. By winter I mean that it is cool enough for it to be t-shirt weather. I had breakfast this morning without sweating. It was a novel experience I hope to repeat for at least a couple of weeks before things get all hot and disgusting again.

I start work again tomorrow. I get to teach 4-6 year-olds now. I am so excited. I can't wait to have a room of 18 kids, they are so cute and amazing. I have been told that I will have criers, peers, pukers, and possibly poopers. What could be better?

Till next time.