Summer of 2022

 WELCOME TO YALE!

This will be your classroom - your notebook - your record of the work we do in this summer of 2022. All of our work will be together on one page, so you have the constant audience every writer wishes for and needs. We will begin the class with a writing assignment today, which will take you out of the classroom for a walk on the stone paths, beside the ivied walls, among Yale's famed architecture, to write your own first impression of the campus you will call home for the summer of 2022.

SUMMER OF 2018

This session begins with absolutely beautiful weather and a lovely group of students - Charlotte and Claire from China, Heri from Tanzania, Matilda from Sweden, Danielle from Brazil and Lluvia from Mexico.
Our first week was a HUGE success insofar as all the students created their blogs AND published their first post, and that was in only three days. Tomorrow is our celebration picnic at the lake and I'll make a point of getting a class photo for our class blog.
I LOOK FORWARD TO WORKING WITH YOU ALL!
I am already an admirer of your work and ideas!

WELCOME TO OUR CLASS...

...where my impressive international students surprise themselves with their masterful writing and very intriguing photographs.

Our classroom building at Yale

WELCOME TO YALE, My Students! 

This 2016 I have the pleasure of welcoming Aurelien, Claire, Katie, Ingrid, Lindsay, Mike, Vera and Yuhe to a feast of reading, writing, blogging and conversation which together we will make cherishable. This morning we met and in a very short time this group managed to create their blogs and begin their first post...a truly promising class!

Cocktail Party - without the cocktails

And though we begin our relationships by keeping our distance, still unsure of each other, it doesn't take long for the "Relentless Interview" to bring us closer together...

A Class is Born

And now we are ready to begin!

Tomorrow we will read one another's "First Impressions", which will soon become the student's first post and the start of their blogging.
And I don't mean to brag, but please let me remind you that all of these students are writing at this impressive level in their second language.....so...without further adieu....

Welcome to their lives, their time together at Yale and their travels.

We began as strangers almost two weeks ago - a bit shy, unsure of each other, maybe a little jet-lagged, but NEVER without a sense of adventure. From the moment we began, a little magic happened...

We have no business having this much fun

   ...and it has been happening ever since.
   By the second day of class all the students had already named and begun their blogs. The following day they were all busy writing their "First Impressions" of the U.S. and Yale, which would soon become their first post and the start of their blogging. And I don't mean to brag, but please let me remind you that all of them are writing at this impressive level in their second languages.

   Now, only ten days later....HERE THEY ARE WORLD!
Welcome to their lives, their time together and their travels.

Shy no more

We look forward to entertaining you!