Steve and Myah came to Seattle and reunited with Venezia and Sadie! Myah built an amazing race track with Venezia, using every block, lego and toy they could find… legendary to this day.

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Myah and Steve threw a great party the day Medora and Co. headed to Portland… here is Venezia having fun…

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Happy Holidays, and welcome to our blog! If you haven’t heard from us in a while, you might need a couple of updates. First, what’s this about Berkeley? Well, last year I decided that it was time to move on to another challenge in life, and thought that business school would be a good way to delay the actual decision. That’s why we’re in Berkeley–I’m in my first year at the UC-Berkeley MBA program. Things are going swell, although a little busines than I thought… oh well, Medora and Venezia love it in the Bay Area, as you can see from some of the posts in the archives of this blog.

Other news? Medora is expecting our second in May! We won’t know boy or girl until then, just like with Venezia–it’s a great surprise at the end. Venezia is sure that it will be a girl, but we have no idea! So now that you’re caught up on the big stuff, enjoy this site by looking in the archives, checking out some pictures, and living vicariously through the Internet. Oh yea, one more thing–be sure to comment on the blog so we know you’re around… we love to read comments!

Hope to see you in Miami or Portland over the next month… Love, Tony, Medora and Venezia

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Tonight we attended a small informal gathering of several families that live here in the Village. It was enjoyable and interesting, as many of our social outings have been. We met a couple from Korea (”Suzie” and Micky”), a couple from Chile with a 3 year old girl, a couple from France with a 13 month old, two couples from China, one with a baby named Mau Mau, a couple from Japan and a man from Nigeria (Oh, there were a couple of Yanks there too, but who cares).

I chatted at length with one of the men from China, the country in which I’m most fascinated. I love hearing about the Chinese experience with their state-owned businesses, or businesses that are affected strongly by the government (so far everyone from the mainland I’ve spoken to has worked for a company that falls into this category).

I meant to update a couple of nights ago, but I might as well toss it in this post. I went out to meet some new classmates at a local bar, and I sat next to a woman from Denmark, across from a man who grew up in Iran (Him: “it’s just like living in any other country.”
Me: but what about the Iran/Iraq war, you must have lived there then, right?
Him: Oh yea, I guess there were some bombings occasionally
Me: and what about living in an extreme religious society?
Him: Sometimes the radical Islamists would beat me up because I had gel in my hair.
Me: OK, that sounds normal.)
And around the table was a guy from the Phillipines, a guy from Malaysia of Chinese origin.

Another night of great conversation!

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We had a couple of new friends over for dinner the other night–Joe and Noriko.  Noriko is Japanese and speaks little english, and Joe has lived in Japan for the last several years.  Joe is a Haas student as well, and they live in the Village with us.  Very cool people.  Noriko is great with Venezia, and it was amusing to hear V try and pronounce Noriko’s name.

In true Japanese fashion, they brought us a gift–a nice set of chopsticks for each of us.  A daddy chopsticks, a mommy chopsticks and a baby chopsticks.  Here is a picture of Nezia and Noriko.

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