I am now on my way to Shanghai, sitting in the Seattle airport. I will be posting blogs on my life in Shanghai on another website I have dedicated to that:

http://www.in-shanghai.org

. Please see my most recent entry there.

In two weeks from tomorrow I will be getting on a plane to go back to China. It was also one year ago tomorrow that I left China, being over a year since I was there...the longest I've been away from China since I first went in June 2002 to travel. The other longest time I've been away from China was 2007-2008, where I was in Scotland the first time and away from China for 10 1/2 months. It will be good to get back to China and become refamiliar with the way of life there which I do love for some odd reason.

Today I, my parents, my sister, my brother-in-law and my two nephews went to a Christmas activity together. At Hillcrest Country club Santa Claus came to see the kids, so my two nephews took pictures with Santa Claus. They were very cute today. We also ate a lot of food, listened to a lot of Christmas songs.

My month-before-New Years resolution is to be more active in my blog posting, now that I've successfully gotten more adapt to setting up websites using Drupal CMS (if you don't know what that is, or want to know more, feel free to contact me...I love giving help and tips).

As many of my friends and family members know, I have, after living in China almost 5 years, been getting a 2-years masters from University of Edinburgh in Scotland, and as of the end of last month, I am through!  It feels good to be done.  Now I am back in Boise, Idaho for a month or so before heading onto my life back in China, and finding a job there.