I am picking up the guidebook I had published today! Last night I started to calculate based on the one copy I had just how many boxes I will have, and lets just say thank goodness for Zabel's studio space. Now I just have to sell them all... yeesh.

In the past year or so it has become popular for girls to go blond here. Some girls even cut their hair short and dye it bright red or some other loud color. I remember just 2 years ago two separate diasporan girls who were here and had hair like that would get stared at as if they were aliens. Now, it is not unusual at all. Last year also, a noticeable number of men started to wear shorts in public for the first time. I hope that trend continues. In any event, things change quite fast here from one year to the next, and at least when it comes to wearing shorts, this is a good thing.