Class Memo with Jan in Mar 30 American Beauty is one of my favorite movie. It just lets me know " Things are not what they seem on the surface" . I really recommend people to watch it. When I read the story about Kevin Spacey, I felt it was encouraging. I admired Kevin's endeavor. I don't think I can quit everything to search another one I want to do. Spacey was almost on his top of the film career at that time. However, he quit the gravy train and give up cashing in. He decided to search his dream to run a theater. I have not been to a theater for a while.After reading this article, I may ask my wife to go to a theater recently.

Class Memo with Tyler in Mar 28 I am interested in who controls another one when silent treatment occurs. For example, if the wife is always nagging and arguing, the husband would be silent to show their inability and powerlessness. However, if someone doesn't want to talk, he/ she owns the power not to talk anymore. Will the powerful one give up the power? The silence treatment would be a assassination indeed. Although it is a good way to talk to solve the problem with each other, it is better to see whom you talk to. You must think twice what to talk, how to talk and when to talk too. I tried to talk with my wife when she was angry. The result was not so good because I didn't know how to talk with her. It brought about more severe arguing at that time. So sad. If we really want to set up a pact or the timeout schedule, it is important to clarify we are on the same page. Otherwise, one would be angry why you are not willing to talk. Nice to talk to you always. Hope you can keep searching for your dream and make it come true.

Class Memo with Tyler in Mar 21 It is great to talk with you about "A Gradual Approach to Healthy Eating". The article is inspiring. After reading this article, I felt excited and started to live a new life. As we discussed in the previous session, I always tried to change my life style drastically. Sadly, it is the reason I failed. Maybe I have to change my life style gradually instead of drastically.

Class Memo with Tyler in Mar 14 Thanks for your teaching today. Many phrasal verbs were mentioned: turn down, branch out and live up to. Like you said using phrasal verbs would make you be like a native speaker more. It was also great to talk about the diversification of a company. Although our existing product is stable now, we all still don't know what the market will be in the future. In order to avoid the risks, we all hope to branch out a new business. New business is exhausting for sure. We also have no idea whether it would be successful or not. We still have to invest our future. Thanks for sharing your favorite TV shows including “Man Men” and “How The States Got Their Shapes”. Recently my wife and I loved to watch “walking dead” to enjoy how people survive in an isolated and dangerous situation. Thanks for your teaching. See you.

Class memo with Tyler on Mar 11 Talking the aquarium with you is great. You said the fantastic aquarium in Bahamas and I also shared the Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium in Japan. It is 2 hours driving from Naha. I saw whale sharks there. The scene there is so breath-taking. You would only stand there and drop your jaw. I wish I will visit there again in the future. We also discussed the pet technology too. Many people talked about pet economy. We could make a lot of money from pets' owners. I thought this is the reason why so many new inventions were developed. Like the remote technology, we can see our pets far from them. We can even dive into the aquarium virtually without wetting your clothes. Pet could heal patients too. Due to limited space, hospitals in Taiwan are not so easy to have a open space or special space to raise the therapy pets. It is good to hear there are some special kids hospital to have therapy pets' area. That would be great and healing.

Class memo of Tyler on Mar 8 It is great to share with you the sequel of Madrid. At first I only knew the shoes and castanets of flamenco. After goggling the shawls of the flamenco, I learned more about it. The most famous sport in Spain or Europe is playing soccer, in America is football and in Taiwan is baseball. I think it is a good way to watch the sport game to observe the culture of one country too. When I was in the university in Taiwan, we pulled an all-nighter to dance, to see the night view of Taipei, to eat the traditional Taiwanese breakfast. However, I can't make it anymore. Thanks for your teaching always. I do appreciate your correction. See you.