Family Evje Travels

We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming by wanting to share our Holiday Card 2025. We won't be able to mail it to all of you so enjoy this digital and AI-ed version. Here's your task, let us know who looks the most like not themselves. Most AI-fied? 

This month it is six-year-old Alex's turn to write our monthly update to you all. I promise you, with the exception of a couple side comments by me in [brackets], all of these are his words. November was a busy month for us. Enjoy!  [-Tyler] Hi Everyone! This is Alex. I am going to school. At my school it's really loud. And there are new teachers. I have friends there. Their names are Antek, Juzek, Rafał, Artek, Tomek, Kostek, and William. We like to play with Legos. There are also girls. Their names are Hania, Lena, Gabrysia Gorgon, Gabrysia Trojniak, Matylda, Amelka, and Zuzia. [this next part is about Monika's brother's cabin up in the mountains, which is in a town called Zawoja]  We went on a hike up a mountain called Babia Góra. We saw the first bit of snow at the peak. And we were in the clouds. And we have a beautiful view when we're in Zawoja. And we have these mountains called Tatry. One of the mountains looks like a soldier laying down on his side. In Zawo...

Can't believe it's been over 3 months in Poland. A quarter of our time here? Wow! This time it's Monika writing the update. Well, I think I have an unique perspective on this gap year in Poland. Simply because I'm back "home". I'm using quotations on purpose here because as an immigrant the idea of home is an interesting one. In the most pure sense home is where my loved ones are. However, the idea of home can be defined in many different ways and can be interpreted by each person differently. Us immigrants, expats, refugees and nomads can have many places to call home. I came from a home here in Krakow, Poland, deeply connected to the city and also to my local district (because I went to elementary and high schools here). But since moving to California 16 years ago, marrying a Californian and raising my kids there, I definitely now feel at home back in Davis. Because of this, being back in Krakow feels like I'm living a parallel life right now. There ...