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Christmas Letter 2019

Christmas Letter 2019

Looking back at the end of another year, it’s striking to see how differently things went from my expectations. This time last year, I was frantically preparing for a move to China, where I would be teaching English and potentially managing a department of foreign teachers in a language academy in Yangzhou. Now, as I …

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Category: The WorldTag: China, christmas, hike, ireland, korea, mexico, portugal, spain

Christmas Letter 2015- Te Anau Lake

Christmas Letter 2015

The past 12 months have been strange ones for me, and for a number of reasons.  It’s the first year in the past four where I’ve spent more time in my home country than overseas.  It’s the first time since university where I’ve found myself living abroad in a country outside of Asia.  And it’s …

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Category: WritingTag: christmas, The World, travel issues, USA, writing

Christmas Letter 2014

This year, Christmas is going to be weird.  Not because I’m spending it in a flat near the outskirts of Pohang or in a Korean beach-side pension with many of my dear friends.  Not even because I’m spending it on a beach in Thailand belting Johnny Cash tunes out across the waves.  No, this year is weird …

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Category: The World, WritingTag: christmas, iran, Japan, korea, kyrgyzstan, sweden, tajikistan, Turkey, USA, uzbekistan, washington, writing

Christmas Letter 2013

Dear Family and Friends, Wow.  This is the third Christmas letter I’ve written from this side of the Pacific.  The first, I was not even three months into my first teaching contract in South Korea; the second, I was soaking in the sun on an island beach in Thailand.  Now, I’m back in Korea more …

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Category: The WorldTag: christmas, The World

Christmas Letter

Dear Friends, Family, and Everyone Else What a year, eh? This year has been one of amazing opportunities, changes, and dreams come true for me.  I spent most of the year living in Oak Harbor, a small town on in island in Washington State.  Most of my life centered around my job working in a …

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Category: The WorldTag: christmas, The World

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