Season's Greetings from Phoenix!

The last time that my English 061 class met during the past semester, most of the students wrote messages for the blog. I've posted them one by one as comments to this message.

My own reaction to this blog is that I've greatly enjoyed being part of it and can't begin to tell all of you how much I've personally benefitted from my involvement in the project. Thank you for enriching my life and for greatly expanding my knowledge of Brazil!

I also think the blog has been very valuable for my students. For most of them, the blog was their first experience in using English for international communication—and to gain personal knowledge of another culture. Through the blog, I think my students gained quite a bit of knowledge about Brazil and, more importantly, learned that while Brazilians are in some ways different from people in the U.S., there are actually many more similarities than differences. This is a very important lesson, I think.

I hope Chanukah or Christmas will be very special for all of you, and I also hope that 2007 will be filled with opportunities, challenges, success, prosperity, and all that is good, true, and beautiful!

Dennis