Yeah, the trees will grow back but it will take a couple of years. We were within a month or so of harvesting another bunch of bananas. Guy is an idiot.

I now have five students ranging in age from 26 to 62. The young one LOOKS very young. She seems to have timed her visit just right. The Japanese soccer teams train here in Guam at LeoPalace Resort, her hotel. Every class she comes in with another story of which game she watched and what players gave her autographs. She says she has a meeting (in Japan) planned with one of the players. I've been calling him her new boyfriend. She's lots of fun.

The oldest student, Teruyo, is from Kyoto. She proudly claimed on the first day that Kyoto is the oldest city in Japan. I looked her in the eye and asked, "What about Nara?" She didn't expect a gai-jin would know about Nara! She's a hoot.

I came up with a new way to explain the difference between 'see' and 'look' today. I told Teruyo to imagine we were walking on the beach and that there were lots of pretty girls in tiny bikinis. I said, "You SEE them but I am a man. I'm LOOKING at them." "Farther on," I said, "were lots of handsome young men in tiny spandex swimsuits. I see them but you are looking at them." She had no problem with the concept after that.