Dear America,

After about a seven-week process of drafting, writing, sending, and waiting for letters from across oceans and continents, between Nan, Thailand and All-Over-the-Place, U.S.A., my 6/2 students finally got to open their mail from America today.

They tore into those envelopes like Christmas presents, and spent the better half of class time analyzing every word on the page. "Aj. Caitlin, Jennifer is a boy or woman??? How old is Mary Paul?? WHAT is a lawyer? Is this you in this picture???" (pointing to any and every white women who showed up in letter-writers' enclosed photos).

Many thanks again to everyone who wrote!