As I had mentioned earlier, yesterday was the Lifelong Learning College’s Open House.\u00a0 The benefit of attending this event \u00a0is to get the Fall Catalog before it is circulated with the Daily Sun on Monday, and also to get to meet many of the teachers and facilitators of the\u00a0different classes offered.\u00a0 You also are able to sign up for classes, which is really very important, as some classes fill up quickly.\u00a0 I signed up yesterday for three, which I felt were going to fill up fast, and I have two more I will call in on Monday.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0I know curiosity kills the cat…so I will tell you what I signed up for.\u00a0\u00a0First, I found the art instructor I was looking for…Rebecca Schwartz, so I will be taking her watercolor class.\u00a0 I’m excited about that as there are several people lately that have encouraged me to do watercolors, so I will give it a try. \u00a0I also love Dr. Ina Anderson’s classes, so checked her\u00a0fall schedule and she is giving a course on Reincarnation and Karma.\u00a0 Just speaking briefly with her, her enthusiasm for everything is still bubbling\u00a0inside me.\u00a0 I\u00a0did tell her I am becoming more interested in Reincarnation as the closer I get to leaving here, I find it comforting\u00a0 to know there is a possibility I may be coming back.\u00a0 The third person I looked for, found and signed up\u00a0with is Roger Kass.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Again, like Dr. Anderson, I will sign up for whatever Roger is facilitating, however unlike Dr. Anderson making me feel all bubble inside, I am rather intimidated, not by\u00a0 Roger but by the subject of his course.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Having worked with Roger and his wife at Properties of The Villages,\u00a0 I had opportunities to talk with them and always found my conversations with both of\u00a0 them to be\u00a0very insightful and above all, always very interesting.\u00a0 I saw Roger was\u00a0teaching\u00a0\u00a0a class last semester and tried to sign up but it was already full, however\u00a0attending the Open House\u00a0 gave me the opportunity to sign up\u00a0early.\u00a0 The\u00a0class is \u00a0” Great Decisions 2012″\u00a0\u00a0which \u00a0fosters group discussions \u00a0exploring different perspectives on current foreign policy topics.\u00a0\u00a0The foreign policy topic is the intimidating part, as\u00a0 I know very little about our\u00a0 policies.\u00a0 However, \u00a0 I think we are\u00a0faced more and more with global challenges that impact our own domestic challenges, and it\u00a0is good to be part of discussions such as this.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Those that have critiqued Roger’s classes say… discussions are lively, friendly and informative, he makes you think and even sometimes changes \u00a0your mind, he is passionate about the subject and does an excellent job of stirring up discussion… \u00a0\u00a0Stirred I am, and am looking forward to September.\u00a0\u00a0 The two classes I’m signing up for tomorrow are Cold Porcelain and Hemingway’s Women.\u00a0\u00a0 The cold porcelain is like working with clay but unlike clay it does not need to be fired and it air drys in 24 hours.\u00a0 Years ago I did molding of\u00a0 Baker’s clay, which did not have to be fired either. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0My daughter-in-law\u00a0 Michele\u00a0recently sent me pictures of some of things I had made, reminding me of the fun I had doing \u00a0that.\u00a0\u00a0 I anticipate I will really enjoy working with the cold porcelain, just as I did the Baker’s clay.\u00a0 Last but not least is Hemingway’s Women. I became interested in Hemingway recently when one of our\u00a0 Book Club selections was The Paris Wife, which was about Hemingway’s first wife Hadley.\u00a0 He went on to have several more wives, plus\u00a0there were other woman who influenced him such as his strong Mother and Gertrude Stein.\u00a0 That’s it, I’m \u00a0really looking forward to September.\u00a0 \u00a0I can’t even begin to tell you how much The Lifelong Learning College offers, however there is something for everyone, and \u00a0\u00a0I know if you\u00a0try it…you’ll like it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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