Greetings from the land of the rising sun! Sorry to hear you haven’t been doing that well. My friends and I had a great time at your place for St. Patrick’s, met lots of interesting people and drank that funny looking beer…

We flew out the next day to Japan and after several inconveniences made it here in one piece (cause of the summer time change in Uruguay, our tickets where marked one hour later than the actual time at the day of the flight, luckily Carrasco airport is not that big… while flying from NY to Tokyo, a passenger had to be sent to a hospital and we ended up landing in Edmond, Canada for about 1 hour… missed connection in Tokyo… etc), it took us a total of about 48 hs from the time we left Mvd. to our arrival in our house in Kobe.

By the way, we have a blog you might like to check out http://croguay.blogspot.com it’s mostly about ourselves and very family oriented but there are a couple of good pics from time to time.

Hope to keep in touch with you guys and I wish you the best of lucks into becoming the uruguayos you want to be. I fully support your work and found the book to be very accurate so I’ll be forwarding it to my friends.

If anyone ever stops by in Japan, drop us a note!

Natasa & Gaston

>>Thank you!  The good news is that most of the  pain these days is coming from the healing process–regrowing the skin and flesh eaten by the Staph infection.  The bad news is that it strill hurts like fire.

The Southron

>>Nothing so mundane as Dengue–this is from my 6 year battle with a Staph infection that I may finally be winning.   As to Dengue, it seems pretty limited, check out http://www.uruguaydailynews.com/2007/03/23/mosquito-invader/ on our sister website…

The Southron