Start of class

We began right away with some malleable clay making an object that would represent something about us in our introductions to the class. There was an elephant, a cat playing the drums, a brain, a condenser, a person reading a book, a horse and that's all that I can recall.

By taking this course we have entered into a relationship, not simply a one directional, individual learning course, perhaps in contrast to a more traditional creative writing course, which this certainly is not. I probably would not have taken such a course. John told of us of the Japanese greeting "Yoroshiku onegaishimasu" which can be translated interestingly as 'Please take care of me, for I will be a burden for you.' We were encouraged to acknowledge, and share, our frailties right off the bat, and along with our written introductions we have begun sharing ourselves with the class.

I'll end with a quote from John: "The goal of writers is to make up shit that's true."

よろしくお願いします