Letter to Kuantan Town Council

After hearing my students respond to the question, "How can we make Kuantan a better place?" in last week's English classes, I decided to compile their responses in to a letter written to the Kuantan Town Council (Majlis Perbandaran, Kuantan, or MPK).

The letter can be viewed here:

Letter to Kuantan Town Council

I also emailed the letter to the town council to the address they provided on their site, which is found at: MPK

I believe in being active in the community in which I live. I love Kuantan, it is my home, and I feel that it's a great thing for my English students to have been able to contribute to this letter in support of their home town.

Now let's see if I receive any response! Fingers crossed!

Roger Federer sent me mail!

Can you imagine my delight when I discovered mail in my post box from Roger Federer?!

The letter was found yesterday, complete with Swiss stamps, picture of Roger Federer and postal marks from his hometown Bottmingen.

Roger Federer is a tennis superstar, the best player to have ever played the game, with 70 tournament wins and with 16 major titles (more than any other male player ever), the greatest of all time. He is currently ranked as number three player in the world and is preparing for the Australian Open, which begins on 16th January.

I've been following his tennis career since mid-2004.

I wrote Roger a letter in mid-December 2011, which I'd been meaning to do for quite some time, and boy am I glad I did! I didn't expect any sort of reply. He's a very busy man with a wife and two daughters in addition to his professional tennis commitments.

The letter contained two postcard pictures of Roger Federer, autographed by the man himself. I must admit, I screamed when I took the letter out of the post box! That was a great moment :)

As you can see, I was considerably ecstatic for the rest of the day. I'm framing the two postcards and envelope and I'll be writing him again after the Australian Open.

Roger Federer sent me mail! He's my friend. He's a top man.