It is good to be back in Singapore mode, one sign of it being that I no longer have to manually change the time and date tags on this post. In a matter of days, I have had the beautiful opportunity to stay with a Puerto Rican family and attend one of their Christmas parties, glimpsed D.C. and love it already and foresee spending several hours at the Folger Shakespeare Library and Holocaust Museum, flown 13 hours to Tokyo and then 7 hours home and hearing if not recognizing the increasing number of Singaporeans along the way because of young, Singlish-spouting boys at the Narita Airport, seen two movies in two days, and feasted, including my apple-pie ice-cream from Serene Centre.
I have had first odd feeling of being on holiday in my own country, and have to keep pulling back from being attached to anything again because it will be only three weeks. When it would have been forever. My stomach hurts from the exertion. I can't wait to see all of you.
Rest of Virginia photos are here.