Dear Beatrice, 

  Thank you for your support and understanding. Your compliment has enlightened our dreams and vitalized us. I hope more and more children and parents realize the importance of learning through living. That is the reason why I hold summer and winter camps. Through this close contact, I have the opportunity to know the children better and they also have a chance to put what they have learned from class into practice. During this learning process, they have turned knowledege into wisdom of life, which I think is a crucial stage for them to form their characters. Children's personalities have been shaped by this process as well. They encounter problems and do their best to find out the answers and solve the problems. They meet people from different walks of life and show their respect and sincerity.

  They know that life is not always happy. There might be unpleasant moments, especially while they think that the situations are out of their control, like losing things, breaking stuff or arguing with friends. However, they will always find their way out! All the adults have to do is wait and give them time to think and to make the best decisions by themselves, which you might find it difficult to do so in life of the big cities. People seem to be in a hurry all the time. We adults try to avoid "trouble" and hope that things can always be in order and organized. We clean the mess for our kids and plan things for them. However, it turns out that the more "trouble" we avoid, the more time and effort we spend on educating them, which sometimes they might even have the ability to educate themselves! I would like to share some episodes with you during this camp. While Kevin lost his hats and sun glasses, Peter told him that he had to pay more attention to his belongings. And when Peter lost his feeling of playing the violin, Kevin told him to focus and that if he wanted to win the first prize he had to keep practicing. Kevin was always there while Peter was playing the violin and Peter was always there to remind Kevin while he forgot his belongings. When Peter accidentally broke his violin string, they argued because of misunderstanding each other's meanings but then solved the problem by making a final decision to make a phone call to Peter's father. I was there with them all the time to see them solve their own problems. Amazingly, they did it quite well. They actually made the word friendship meaningful.  

  At the age of 9, Peter and Kevin are full of energy of learning new things and curious about the information that they have never heard about. I am very pleased to see that a petal, a leaf, a breeze and a wave fill their life with mirth. The nature tickles them. They are not addicted to the artificial amusement such as video games, on-line games or TV programs, which I appreciate the parents' effort very much on controlling their time of using the technological entertainment at home.

  Peter and Kevin are active and optimistic. However, they are quite sensitive as well. They know how much I care about the manners-- table manners, bus manners, museum manners, art gallery manners, airport manners, in-flight manners,... and so on. What they have heard from me most during the camp is probably the word "manners." When they leave home, they know that they are not the "ONLY" boys anymore. They learn to comprimise with the group. Making concessions is a major lesson for them. I had formed a habit of spending some time chatting with them and explained what had happened during the day and how the other people felt about us before they went to bed. I could tell that they were doing their best to improve and be responsible to themselves each day.

  To see what they see and to talk what they talk are the best ways to understand their thinking and feelings.  Children have douts as adults do. They question life and how people interact with each other. It does take time before children treat adults as their true friends. And it does need a skill to maintain the relationship that holds us together. Knowledge, wisdom, humanity and consideration come with the art, literature and philosophy of life. I do appreciate your supporting the camp and making all of these dreams possible.

Love,
Camilla 

Dear Kevin and Dorothy's Mother,

您好，

Thank you for emailing me.

 謝謝您的來信。

I will meet you, Kevin and Dorothy at 5pm on June 19, which is this coming Saturday afternoon, not June 20.

我們約6/19下午5:00見面，也就是這個星期六，不是6/20喔。

By the way, is it possible that you can email me Kevin and Dorothy's data again by attaching the file. (I haven't receieved their data yet.)

另外，可以再請您以附件檔案的方式傳送Kevin和Dorothy的資料嗎？(目前尚未收到他們的檔案資料。)

Here is the address of the studio: Rm. C., No. 20, Ln. 54, Taishun St., Da-an Dist., Taipei City 10648, Taiwan, R.O.C.
工作室的住址為：10649 台北市大安區泰順街54巷20號1樓C室

If there is any other question, please feel free to contact me.

如果有任何問題，歡迎隨時來信。

Best regards,

敬祝

      安康

Camilla

 Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2010 21:47:49 +0800
 Subject: 6月20日5:00pm會面
 To: camillawu2004@hotmail.com
 
Hi, Dear Miss Wu:
 
上次與老師電話中提到6月20日的會面，隨函附上我家小孩的資料，麻煩了!謝謝。
 可否請問老師教室的地址?
 
kevin and Dorothy 's Mother
 

Dear Claire,

I hope Emma and her sister and brother are fine now. I am sure that you must have had a long weekend last week. Emm's learning attitude impresses me favorably. Your spending time reading with her has won my respect as well. I do hope to see you soon.

As for the clubs during the summer vacation, the studio will hold summer camps instead in July and August. Emma is encouraged to join Taitung Children's Literature Summer Camp from July 5 to July 9 if she is available during that period of time.

 Love,

Camilla