Merry Christmas

Our 2010 was simply busy but blessed and overwhelmingly positive in every way.
Erik continues to do well in many things in his life including building complicated objects with Legos. Of course, many of our friends and family know of his strong interest in Music, especially Piano. Erik has enjoyed a new teacher, Dr. Yang who has again brought Erik up to a different plane. We are simply blessed to be provided with such excellent piano teacher for Erik each year. Currently, Erik is practicing Mozart Concerto for a competition which will be held in January. Erik also continued to play tennis this year and made quite a bit of progress in the art of playing tennis as well.

Sven has been busy at the university and he continues to conduct research as well. He enjoyed hosting the students at our home weekly. I can not tell you or explain what his focus of research is at this moment, but, I can tell you that he does well with what he does and he did turn in his tenure packet this fall. We will know if we will be a permanent resident of Louisiana when we learn of the decision about Sven's tenure status. We won't be terribly disappointed if he is placed in a position to have to search for another position elswhere. We will just view it as yet, another adventure.

As for me, I just returned from two week trip in Japan.
It was a productive two weeks visiting universities, enjoying new encounters and of course eating good food. I spent a week in South Africa in October as well. I realize how small our world is after all..... There is so much to see and learn out there when we step out of our comfort zone.

We are looking forward to having Christmas at home this year instead of traveling. Part of us want to be with our friends and family up north. But we had, or more exactly, I traveled so much recently that even I am ready to settle for a little while.

We wish all of our friends and families very Merry Christmas. We are blessed to know you as friends/family. May God Bless your family for the new year.


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Marlene Blough said…
I thoroughly enjoyed your wonderful concert. It made me want to go practice the piano. Keep up the excellent work.
January 29, 2011 at 3:08 AM
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