You people really do write a lot! I was at home in Kokkola for six days, celebrating our Independence day and meeting my family, and it took me five hours to read about half of the messages written while I was gone. I think I now know again what's happening here.

And Thursday I'll be going again. This time to Australia. It'll be an almost four-week-long trip, so I guess you don't hear from me for some time. But I'l try to find a computer with access to the Net.

However, our plans for the trip have changed. Anna, my little sister, has some sort of asthma that was discovered to be worse than we thought. So she, Otto, her brother, and Ossi, their father, are not traveling with us. We'll go to the Outback of Australia, where it could be hard to find help with breathing problems, and thus it's safer for Anna to stay home. Only me, and Heta, my sister, and Aapo, my brother, and our mother are going to travel. In fact, Mom is about now going from Singapore to Brisbane with her friend, who promised to travel with us. She is born in Australia, too, and was older than my Mom when they left Australia, so she remembers a lot of more places than Mom.

So... If I don't have time to post here tomorrow or the day after tomorrow...
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to you all
and see you next year!

Juho