A New Year of Happiness, page 2 (July 2002 Number 2)
| IN THIS ISSUE |
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Story Vince & Grace Honeymoon in New England and Canada |
| Perspective It Needs More than Us: Thoughts on What Our Newsletter Should Be |
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Family News Shawn DeWitt Hannah Lai |
| Profile Vernon Hsu |
| Recipe
Corner Honey-Ginger Salmon |
| Upcoming Birthdays |
| Contacting
Us Links to email and home page |
| RECIPE CORNER |
| Honey-Ginger Salmon
We just love fish. This is one of our favorites and it's quick and easy to make. This recipe is modified from the epicurious website at http://www.epicurious.com. 6 tablespoons honey Stir honey, cilantro, hoisin sauce, ginger and brown sugar in bowl to blend. Preheat broiler. Brush salmon steaks with oil. Sprinkle with salt and pepper. Brush with some of honey-ginger glaze. Broil salmon until opaque in center, basting occasionally with remaining glaze, about 4 minutes per side. Transfer salmon steaks to plates; serve. |
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| It Needs More Than Us: Thoughts on What Our Newsletter Should Be |
| Since Grace & I were married just over six
months ago, we have wanted to stay in touch with our family and
friends. As a result, this newsletter was born. For those of you
who received our first newsletter, some of you had trouble opening
the file, and it was a large file as well (in PDF format). Thus,
we decided to make subsequent newsletters easier to access by
making this one HTML, or a web page (I have had a lot of fun and
frustration learning Microsoft FrontPage).
Basically, we want to improve on the newsletter. And our next thought for making it better is to include news, not just about us or our immediate family, but about our extended family and friends. Two months ago I emailed a lot of you asking you to give us news about yourselves. Unfortunately, the response I received was eerily quiet. While this newsletter contains updates from my immediate family, I also know there is so much more out there from you! I think it would be wonderful for us to hear about the wedding that took place in San Francisco last month, the travels of a recent college graduate to the Philippines, the experiences of a medical student in Orange County, or just the latest update on whatever you're doing and your plans for the future. It's easy to be so caught up being busy with our daily lives that we forget to stay in communication with each other. So contact us. Thus, this newsletter needs more than us. It needs you. |
| LATEST FAMILY NEWS (AND FRIENDS, TOO) | |
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March 4: Shawn DeWitt turned one year old and is doing great. He has mastered the last part of walking--standing up by himself, and now loves to walk, walk, walk! He's not running yet, but he can go pretty quickly. Sometimes going fast is the only way he can keep his balance! --Reported by Lisa DeWitt |
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April 21: Mrs. Hannah Lai celebrated 60 years of life together with close family and friends at the Midlands Court Restaurant in Penang, Malaysia. |
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We need to hear from you! Is your birthday or another family member's birthday missing on our list? Do you have a personal experience that you would like to share with the rest of the family? A favorite recipe? Do we have a wrong or missing email address? Let us hear from you--contact us! |
| PROFILE | |
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Update from Vernon Hsu |
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| [Editor's
Note: This letter was originally written and sent on May 27, 2002.
You may write to Vernon at mathvern@aol.com.
] Greetings to all my friends, family, former MVA co-workers, and former students, Yes, another one of my form letters. I would write to each one of you separately, but since most of you haven't heard from me recently, you'd all be receiving the same information anyway. This is primarily addressed to those of you who I knew at Mountain View Academy, but it's also to update my other friends on my first nine months in Hawaii. It is close to the end of another school year. Finals are coming up this week, followed by graduation weekend. I am presently typing this on my new laptop that I bought a few weeks ago. I must confess that I have betrayed my Apple roots and gone with a Dell PC. Right now I am in the woodshop, waiting for one of my physics students to finish the "face-drilling" project that I have assigned each year. Unlike MVA, however, I am required to be in the woodshop any time my students are in here working. I suppose that it makes sense, even though in the four years I let my students work in the woodshop on their own, nothing bad has ever happened. Anyway, I've been spending many Saturday nights and Sundays here in the woodshop. Basically I'm always caught up on my grading because there isn't a whole lot else to do while I'm here. Today I was fortunate enough to have a break in the middle of the day so that I could go home and watch the Lakers pull off an awesome comeback against the Kings! By the way, home is just off campus so I walk to and from school every day. I guess I should apologize for not writing sooner to most of you. If you are receiving this through your e-mail it is because I have either received e-mail from you before, or you had written your e-mail address in my yearbook that you signed. Or I just happened to find your e-mail address hidden in the recesses of my room. It took me over an hour to retype all the addresses onto my new computer. I hope I didn't miss anyone.... This year has gone by quickly, though not without its share of trauma. All experiences help me to grow, however, so I just try to learn from it and move on. I am definitely closest to the freshman class this year; partly because I teach them both Algebra I and Physical Science, but also because this is their first year here as well as mine. I actually don't teach many students except for freshmen and seniors (physics and pre-calculus); just a handful of sophomores and juniors who are taking Algebra I. I don't sponsor any class, I'm one of the SA sponsors (here it's called ASHMA for Associated Students of Hawaaian Mission Academy). Somehow I got stuck doing the Funnybook here and it looks like it's my job for some time. I guess I should train some students to do it again.... I'm sure they do a good job. I suppose the biggest news in my life which some of you are aware of by now is that my girlfriend will be moving here from California later this summer. Her name is Joan Fidel and I met her a few years ago at Mountain View Central Church. Our friendship has developed over the past few years and now we're getting ready to move forward. Doesn't mean that wedding bells are ringing right away, but I'm pretty sure you'll be hearing them in the future. For those of you who thought I was a hopeless case, sorry to disappoint you... :-) Life in Hawaii is, I suppose, what you would expect. Beaches, tourists, and beautiful weather are certainly here. But Honolulu is also a city, and with it comes high-rises, traffic, and sirens. One thing I've learned, now teaching in my third school, is that people are people. Teenagers are teenagers no matter what State you're in. True, the senior class has its share of surfers (I know of at least five who are involved in a surfing contest this weekend), but the freshman boys talk about nothing but the latest computer games. And I still don't know why some girls are concerned about their makeup in the middle of my class.... I like the students here. I DO miss my MVA students, however, and I'm always thrilled to hear any time that HMA and MVA students get together, like at Leadership Conference, Fresno Tournament, and vespers with the Seniors on their trip. Having said that, however, it looks like I won't make it for MVA's graduation this year. Besides the fact that I haven't received an invitation or any senior photos, I'm trying to save money for the future, now that I actually have one. Joan has flown out here a couple of times and will be coming again in July before we both head back East to spend some time with my whole family, including my brother-in-law Steve, my new sister-in-law Grace and of course, my cutest nephew Shawn. Next year I will be teaching here again; I guess I didn't do too badly so they gave me another contract for next year. I understand that MVA will have both Mr. and Mrs. Andres teaching there next year. Also there will be a Mrs. Guerrero come December. I hope to do more scuba diving next year, or maybe beginning this summer. I've only been out once since I got my certification. I tried my hand at surfing, but I decided it just isn't really my thing, although I will go on occasion to be sociable. My teaching load next year will be similar to what it is this year, with one significant difference. Instead of teaching Physical Science next year, I will be teaching the Sophomore Religion class. I am looking forward to that; I've never taught a Bible class before, but the last few years I've often thought about it and hoped that I would get the opportunity. I often wondered what it would be like to reach students on other than a scientific level, though I try to do that anyway in all my classes. But this is something different, and I hope I have a good experience. God is good. I feel that He has been leading me, both socially in my relationship with Joan, and professionally, leading me here to HMA and now the opportunity to teach a Bible class. I just wanted to fill you in on what's been going on here with me. Hopefully you'll have the chance to do the same. I think I've breathed enough sawdust for one day so I'm going to get this boy out of here. Take care and have a great summer. Love, Vernon |
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