7/28/2013 cont.- Back in the States... Mommy,Daddy and Kristin happy to have me home!!!

On my way home, boarding in 1.5 hours... East coast here i come! Mom, Dad and Kristin are glad to have me back home. So, I am back home in MD now... work tomorrow... Lots of memories and thoughts to think about... It's 7/29 in Korea right now as they are about 13 hours ahead of us.

All the dates below are posted as they stood in Korea.

Trip of a lifetime has come to a close... I now have 19 new friends from all over the world... Korea, Denmark, Belgium, Norway, France and of course people from the West and Mid-west in the USA...  Jet-lag sucks and I go back to working in full swing tomorrow.

I have memorabilia to remember the trip, a taekwondo uniform, a new hanbok and  some other nice trinkets...
I have decided I am going to start a memory box and hang up some of the art work done by framing them.
I also will create a scrapbook with all the paperwork...

Much thanks and gratitude to HOLT and the staff of Holt for this wonderful opportunity.

Returning home was also hilarious... Going through customs was very quick: the guard thought I was 14... It's half my age but hey... That's okay... At least he had a sense of humor...

Ironies of ironies: the two people I sat next to on the plane ride out of Dulles to Incheon were the same two people I sat next to on the plane ride back home from Incheon to Dulles. They spent two weeks in China with a tour group and had a layover in Incheon. It was a mother and daughter that was vegetarian: I can't recall the mother's name but the daughter's name was Daisy; she was nine.