Best wishes to you and your family for this wonderful holiday season. Hoping you an exciting year to come filled with joy, love and blessings. 2007 has been a year filled with joy, excitement, challenges & adventure and I am grateful for everything and especially for your friendship.  Summary of 2007: ·        Served as VP of ISA (International Student Association). We achieved a great deal this year with a much better insurance plan and waiver for all graduate  assistant. Very proud of all the great people I worked with … you guys ROCK!!!   (you know who you are ;-) , I am not going to get into name listing business, haha …) ·         Met some awesome new friends   J and needless to mention all my lovely old friends ;) ·         FINALLY graduated … Renee got her master in Experimental Statistics with a minor in Electrical Engineering ·         Got a job at American Express – International Marketing Capabilities as an Econometrician to do strategic Targeting, Analysis & Optimization. In plain English: I figure out how to   get people to be an AMEX card member … (hey it ain't easy :p) ·         Moved to Phoenix after living in Baton Rouge for 8 years (almost 9 years … gosh can't quite believe 9 years has passed), and loving Phoenix so far ·         Picking up a few extra hobbies : Salsa dancing (oh… this is totally fantabulous ;) , hiking, Squash ·         Exploring the states a bit: Orlando, Chicago, San Antonio, White Sands, Grand Canyon, Sedona, Las Vegas, LA, Santa Barbara, DC,  San Jose, Gulf Shore, Denver, St. Louis, NYC and of course a lot of New Orleans ;-)                                        2008 Destination: Taiwan, Japan, Canada and HOME to Hong Kong for sure … if wallet/PTO allow … Europe is next ;-)     That basically concluded my 2007. I am very much looking forward to 2008 and hoping to see you guys very soon in 2008. Best wishes to you all   Renee