In the hopes you’ll all bear with me a little longer…

I offer letters.  Letters from very earnest, hardworking middle school third-year students (American freshmen) to their resultingly occasionally befuddled but always touched sensei.  (of course it's absolutely not the case that I have chosen letters from my favorite students to show you.  Nope.  >.>)

Detail:
Jazz is this student’s tiny, adorable, much-beloved silky terrier.
  A confirmation of building construction?  My students are inventive with dictionaries. 
Screech and Porter are extremely popular.  I’m not sure what a “konb” is.
  Mostly unrelated to this letter, but Harry Potter is SUPER POPULAR.  The latest craze among my second-years involves them running up to me and yelling “HARI POTA!” to which I have to reply with “avada kedavra!” or other spell of my choice.  The spells are a bit… difficult for them to say, so my pronunciation is SO INTERESTING.  Apparently. 
Examinations are a huge deal for third-years.  Japan has an extremely competitive entrance examination system for high school and college, so students attend juku (cram school) from usually middle school on. 
Can’t argue with that logic.  (Kingyou=goldfish.)

Moar (okay, a few) pictures on Flickr. U can has pictures.

And I will blog this weekend if Lauren has to tape the keyboard to my hands to make me do it.