A Christmas without sunscreen

I'm adding Christmas to the long list of things that snuck up on me this year, the list includes small innocuous things like the 4kg that returned to my belly over the last couple of months, also the months September, October, November and December. Then more important stuff like my ability to travel across an unknown country by myself fearlessly and the employment of time management skills I vehemently refused to learn all through high school! Is this what living is?


It's -8 in Buyeo today and my body felt like lead as I tried to drag it out of bed on Friday morning for the last day of school. I am off to Pohang this weekend for Christmas and to spend time with family, since that is what Christmas is about. It doesn't feel anything like Christmas this side, I am not sure if all those years of hearing "I'm dreaming of a white Christmas" ever made me actually want this. There won't be snow in Pohang so that might make it better? worse? I don't know.

I'm awfully homesick and jealous of you all. I hope you all have a blessed Christmas with your families, the sun and the mountain. I hope you eat a lot but don't forget to leave space for dessert. Don't fall asleep in midnight mass and sleep lekker long after lunch. May the Love of the Lord Jesus Christ keep you safe and happy, and if you're not into that sort of thing I still hope you are safe and happy.


Love from Pohang
Vasti