a Deepest remorse and heartfelt apology

To class members of the class "JAPAN!",

let me express my deepest remorse and heartfelt apology for having showed you a pornography in the last class.

As an active Protestant Christian,

I feel contrite from the bottom of my heart and soul.

What I did was something which should never be tolerated.

Please accept my contrite apology.

I would like to apologize to you face to face in the next class.

I am very sorry.

Keiko Whitlock

Tampopo crisis!!

As you know, next class is "JAPANESE MOVIE DAY 1"!

We will show you "Tanpopo".

This is a comedy about Japanese ramen noodle and I rated R.

Anyway yesterday I received an e-mail from Ollie office and theyt said they can not get the DVD of "tanpopo" by next Monday!!

I and Hidemi were upset and we talked on the phone and decided to visit local libraries to see if they have DVD of tanpopo!!

I went to Clark County Library.  They had lots of Japanese DVDs and I was surprised, but anyway there was no "tanpopo", but I found a very funny Samurai video!!

And I rented it.

Hidemi lives in North Las Vegas and she visited her nearest library, but she couldn't find "tanpopo".

She asked the librarians there and found out that there is only one library in Las Vegas which has "tanpopo"!!

She drove there and finally she rented it!!

Wow...

We can show "tanpopo" as we promised to everyone.

Please come and enjoy this Japanese movie in the next class.

gift from a class member; Keiko Whitlock

I want to say thank you to everyone in my class!

This tomato is a gift from one of the class members.

This tomato is not only good-looking, but also delicious!

It was juicy and tastes natural.

Thank you very much!!

The fact that someone just remembered about me when she got good tomatoes just makes me very happy...

Come to think of it,

I am so blessed!

Yesterday, I noticed that English of every one who makes comments and questions in our class are getting slower and simpler.  Obviously you guys are caring about me....

It warmed my heart...

Thank you..

Also, I want to say thank you to...

Clyde who always gives me copies of Japan Times,

Elaine who gave us an interesting image about bento,

Muree who hands around the microphone and helped me when I stuttered,

those who always give me words of encouragements every time I meet them,

those who said something good things about our class when I was not there ( I heard about it from many people)

those who attend the class every time,

those who attend the class sometimes,

and also those who have not had chances to visit our class yet.....

Thank you, every one!!

I am so blessed!!

P.S. We will have a movied day next week!!