The teacher on the northern plains, and still a student.
Chris Welsand learned the game in 2025 and, by her own account, has played very nearly every day since. Then she became a certified instructor, through Oh My Mahjong and through the Mahj Life guild, and built a teaching practice across North Dakota, Minnesota and Wisconsin in partnership with local businesses, with a newspaper feature and a morning television segment along the way.
Prim featured her as proof that the boom is making new teachers, in places the mahjong press rarely mentions. She has a particular fondness for the teacher who is also still a student, because she remembers exactly how it felt to be new and teaches straight to that feeling. One kindness from the letter worth keeping: Mahj in the Midwest is not the separate account called Midwest Mahjong. There is only one.
Written from what the letter said. Read the letter for the whole of it.