Welcome to my ...Blog.

It is December 14, and that means Thailand is just 3 weeks away. With some embarrassment, I began this blog today. I say embarrassment because for me, blogging has such a pretentious connotation. Here, let me write my thoughts and emotions that are so great and deep that I have to publish them into cyber space so I can be properly misunderstood....That's what I think when I think about a blogger. But now I am one of them--although I hope to use this as a means of sharing my travels and stories with friends and family-without sending and exorbitant amount of repetitive emails. Also, you can check this whenever you'd like to know what I'm up to, at your own leisure. So you see, this blogging thing (ugh, even just the word bugs me) is really a win-win situation. Or at least that's what I'm telling myself.

Until January,

Val