JP101のみんなさんが大変頑張っているので、ぜひ私は手助けする興味があるけど、時間や能力もあるか分からないんです。Eメールを送ってくれませんか？[m]

Thank You for telling me again, I already receive a reply from JP101!

To JP101 Crew:

Please don’t feel bad because I didn’t sent you anything!
I would sent all something too later on because I must thank you all for everything you have done for us to learn Japanese. I really appreciated very much this wonderul year of your existant and for this seven months since I came here.

Lets make 2007 another great year too! S_R_C

Alan-san, of course! Absolutely beautiful! We have some pictures, and hopefully we’ll be able to get them up soon.

Daniel-san, excellent suggestion!

ミシェルさん、I would like to second that motion! Are you interested?

Sindy-san, package has been received.

Chris-san, yep! And we’d like to try to keep adding more!

Belton-san, 毎度ありがとう！Promised headline…

Doraemon-san, everything should be in order. Apologies for the delay.

Nick-san, thank you for listening and for posting! Please keep them coming. In reference to your question:
I asked a few of my friends, and they said おめでとう or おめでとうございます。But these were some close friends and the topic was already established. I would say it depends on how the conversation goes. If you are first to congratulate go with Belton-san’s recommendation. But is she beats you to the punch and says I got engaged, then I would go with おめでとう or おめでとうございます。depending on how close you are, etc.

Suzume-san, ありがとうございます！今年も宜しくお願いします！

Good luck Fujimoto-sensei in trying to keep the team in order. 愛の鞭だと思います。頑張って。

Wow, thanks for all that!

You should work for JP101!

And also a photo that someone posted on a Japanese weblog–shows the interior of a night bus: http://mitsuzawa.net/pics/20050820/13.jpg

Additionally, here’s the jp.wikipedia link to mirarashi dango みたらし団子: http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%81%BF%E3%81%9F%E3%82%89%E3%81%97%E5%9B%A3%E5%AD%90

There are recipes (with photos) at these two pages if you want to try making them yourself ^_^ (this is, of course, no substitute for actually going to Japan and getting first-hand experience!): http://www.ecorient.co.jp/hmp/mm/024/index.html and http://www.suksuk.net/learning/recipe/l031227.html

notes:
白玉粉 and 上新粉 are both types of rice flour
片栗粉 (かたくりこ) is potato starch
砂糖 (さとう) is sugar
醤油 (しょうゆ) is soy sauce

– For in-depth info. on the differences between the two types of flour (for more advanced Japanese students), check out this yahoo.co.jp bulletin board post: http://detail.chiebukuro.yahoo.co.jp/qa/question_detail.php?queId=9221594 (someone provides an answer to the question 「上新粉」と「だんご粉」と「白玉粉」は何か成分などが違うんですか？それとも同じですか・・・？)

Welcome back after a long absence we miss you all very much!

Its good to know that everything is going back to normal has usual, I miss the lessons!
I also want to welcome the new staff that would join JP101 への歓迎及び私達を結合する為の感謝!

Finally I already have a link of JP101 and the new itunes logo in my website along time ago (Click my name to see it)
so I think I deserve the 25% off. Now what I’m going to do is to find out if my friends have click on it and have subscribe! S_R_C

In answer to your question I’d say–
ご婚約[こんやく}おめでとうございます。
or less formally
婚約[こんやく}おめでとう。

>jPod-san!
Did I miss the promised headline in this cast?

がんばって

Thanks for promising to fix the glitches! I am lost without the English translation on the blog! Which obviously means I need to learn more! Lol!
Nick-san,
This is what I heard recently: konyaku o omedetto gozaimasu. I am sure the experts will be here soon to help you out.

Gambatte everyone