{"id":1299,"date":"2013-03-07T10:06:09","date_gmt":"2013-03-07T15:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ae0.92e.myftpupload.com\/?p=1299"},"modified":"2013-03-07T10:06:09","modified_gmt":"2013-03-07T15:06:09","slug":"im-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/?p=1299","title":{"rendered":"I’m back…"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"OLYMPUS<\/a>…and it’s time once again, to talk about one of my favorite activities in The Villages, and that is The Villages Lifelong Learning College. It was imperative\u00a0that I\u00a0got home Tuesday, as\u00a0two of the three classes I had signed up started Wednesday.\u00a0 Fortunately the storm that swept across Virginia co-operated with my\u00a0agenda, and I was able to scoot through that area, while the sun was still shining.\u00a0\u00a0I was a little intimidated by\u00a0one of the classes I had signed up for and that was The\u00a0Ten Greatest Lessons in History.\u00a0 I will admit that while going through school I studied to pass a test and then immediately forgot everything I learned.\u00a0 That really must have been what happened, as I got fairly good grades, but none of what I learned seemed to be that important to remember.\u00a0 Especially when it came to History, and also Geography.\u00a0 Sean is absolutely amazed at\u00a0my lack of knowledge when talking about other countries.\u00a0And that amazement goes both ways as I am absolutely amazed that all his Irish friends, that were educated in Ireland, know much more than I do about our country, not to mention their knowledge of the political history of all countries. So you can imagine his frustration when I’m not sure where the country geographically is, let alone its’\u00a0place in history. \u00a0Fortunately I have always felt no home is complete without a globe, so must I say that our globe gets a good workout.\u00a0\u00a0Whenever\u00a0we start talking about a country, he will say let me get the globe.\u00a0 He then proceeds to show me where it is and I can own up to not knowing, or nod my head in agreement\u00a0indicating\u00a0that I knew that all along.\u00a0\u00a0 I think he realized that…I can’t believe you don’t know where that is…does not get a good reaction from me.\u00a0 Anyway, back to my History class.\u00a0\u00a0The reason I took this class\u00a0was that I had heard the Instructor speak at our Civil Discourse meetings, and\u00a0as a former History\u00a0teacher,\u00a0his knowledge and enthusiasm for events in History were always exciting to hear.\u00a0 I thought one time, that had he been my History teacher, I bet I would\u00a0love History, just as he did.\u00a0 How could I then, when I saw he was the Instructor, not sign up for his class.\u00a0 At the time, I was excited about it but as the day approached I thought, what am I doing?\u00a0 Fortunately I had read an article recently that said you should surround yourself with people that know more than you, as it will stimulate your thinking process, and therefore enrich your life.\u00a0 Well, I sat in class yesterday, and thought I am\u00a0surrounded by 27 people smarter than I, and it was very stimulating to say the least.\u00a0 We started out with roughly 10 trivia questions that we were to answer,\u00a0and if we did\u00a0not know, \u00a0we were to get the answers from fellow classmates.\u00a0 We all immediately interacted with each other which accomplished two things, we got the answer but we also\u00a0made new friends.\u00a0\u00a0One thing that our Instructor said, which I think is the success of the Lifelong Learning College, is that whenever he went to school it was always to get a degree.\u00a0 That was the main focus, to pass and graduate, to get a Masters, a Doctorate.\u00a0 However, after he retired he took some classes himself and realized there is a big difference in\u00a0learning in order \u00a0to pass, and learning for\u00a0sheer enjoyment.\u00a0 I think there is a lot of truth to that, but I have to admit, that I missed a lot in school because I was busy pursuing friendships, and that is still true today.\u00a0 I loved getting the trivia answers, but I also loved meeting and talking with my fellow classmates.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

…and it’s time once again, to talk about one of my favorite activities in The Villages, and that is The Villages Lifelong Learning College. It was imperative\u00a0that I\u00a0got home Tuesday, as\u00a0two of the three classes I had signed up started Wednesday.\u00a0 Fortunately the storm that swept across Virginia co-operated with my\u00a0agenda, and I was able […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1299"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1302,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1299\/revisions\/1302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bestvillageblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}