Writing, Literature, & Languages   

From Life to Legend: Turning True Adventures into Story invites you to transform real experiences—animal encounters, charged memories, and local history—into vivid scenes for fiction or memoir. Across four weeks, you’ll practice shaping moments from your own life, exploring how to write about real people, and learning to weave rumor, landscape, and lore into compelling openings. The course ends with a return to the wild, gentle group feedback, and concrete ideas for growing your scenes into larger projects.

This is an introductory Japanese language course with cultural learning and activities for enthusiastic learners who want to travel t Japan, to understand anime/shows better, or just to have fun learning a new language and culture! Students will learn basic Japanese greetings, useful expressions, basic conversations, and written language will also be introduced. Students will learn Japanese culture including food, appreciation of nature, holidays, etc. The class will have the real experience of calligraphy, too. The teacher, Ikuko senei, was born and raised in Tokyo, Japan.