Susan Blumberg-Kason

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Postcard from Hong Kong, 1991

July 23, 2010 By Susan Blumberg-Kason 4 Comments

I sent this postcard to my grandma in February, 1991 from Hong Kong.I'm so sorry this card is late. I spent last week in Nanjing, China for the Chinese New Year. I wanted to write to you from there, but I did not come across any postcards. So a postcard of Hong Kong will have … [Read more...]

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Postcard from Thailand, 1991

July 22, 2010 By Susan Blumberg-Kason 2 Comments

I sent this postcard to my grandma in June, 1991.I am in a small town in the northeast of Thailand. It is a very quiet, relaxing place! The guest house where I am staying is right on the Mekong River, overlooking the country of Laos (on the other side of the river). I will … [Read more...]

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Postcard from Tahiti, 1989

July 21, 2010 By Susan Blumberg-Kason 2 Comments

I wrote this postcard to my late grandmother in January, 1989.I'm in Tahiti and will be here for another 2 1/2 weeks! Today we are going to see waterfalls like the one on the front of this postcard. It is pretty hot here and humid! I haven't done much sightseeing because we … [Read more...]

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Ambassador Hotel, Hong Kong

July 19, 2010 By Susan Blumberg-Kason 2 Comments

When I was younger, I used to collect matchboxes from my travels. Before I turned 20, I had bowls of them from South Korea, Tahiti, New Zealand, Japan, Hong Kong, Canada, and places across the US. (The only matchbooks I saw in China back there were plain white, so I didn't … [Read more...]

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Postcard pretty

July 18, 2010 By Susan Blumberg-Kason Leave a Comment

Yesterday I enjoyed a delightful lunch with fellow alumni from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. The director of the alumni association was in town and brought us all a package of these beautiful postcards.Twenty years ago this summer I flew off to Hong Kong to start my … [Read more...]

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