(Top; clockwise) My school with snow-covered playground; my 2nd grade student from Storytelling class; rooftop of neighborhood hanok houses with kimchi clay pots; streets on my way to work; my 2nd grade students attempt to snowfight.

Snow Hits Korea and No Home for the Holidays

Last week it snowed in Daegu and across Korea! My students were excited to play with the thin layer we got. Perhaps we’ll be settling into a White Christmas this holiday season.. If so, I’ll be air-mailing out wintry holiday kisses this season.

My annual trip home for the holidays? Nope, not happening. My mother just posted flight prices and offered to send me a gift ticket in a last effort to get me home for Christmas for four days, but woof.  Maybe Obama would spend that much for a four-day holiday, but staring at those ceiling numbers gave me nosebleed. How many SEA trips that could equal?

To keep from bummed dissatisfaction, I search for a silver lining– it will be my first Christmas/New Year’s holidays abroad and maybe, there’ll be snow!

My winter V-word might enlist medical tourism

Yes… V-time swoops in quickly to offer us NETs travel relief! This January, my vacation lips spell T.H.A.I.L.A.N.D.  and L.A.O.S !
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