First Meeting/Aug 29, 2012

     As I promised, the first meeting of the WOW Reading Club is held in the auditorium at the library on August 29, 2012 at 12 pm. There are three of us. Unfortunately, Ruby, my first recruit, didn't show up due to misunderstanding of the date. Luckily, a day later, being one of my regulars, Ruby came to the library today. She thankfully accepted my gifts of a notebook and  a pen. Briefly, we discussed the agenda and set up the date for our next meeting. The second meeting will be held in the library on September 26, 2012 at 12 pm, another Wednesday.
     The purpose and goal of this reading club are 1) to build up a person's reading habit, 2) to improve a person's learned language skills. Based upon expected achievement, members agree to compose and submit a brief summary to share what they learn from reading. According to each individual's reading level, every member of the reading club picked their choices from the library after the dismiss of the meeting. Points and elements for the summary are roughly listed on the agenda. In addition, lists of suggested reading and tools are available at the end of the paper.
     There are four of us to initiate this tryout reading club. They are: Ruby who is an assistant teacher at one of the local Chinese schools, Fiona who recently got herself a position at a bank, Nancy is a housekeeper, and I, Mei-Wan, is the librarian. Together, we would like to encourage each other to further self-educate ourselves. The public library is a storage of treasure. By the help of learned language, we are going to be treasure hunters diligently, systematically, and consciously to discover more wisdom of our fellow human beings, to dig up essence of human souls, and to enlighten our own life.
     It's important to have the right mind-set I reminded all members as we closed the meeting. Reading is to embrace ourselves in the world of books, not simply make progress at English, the learned second language. To enjoy is the key to turn ourselves to the correct and needed mind-set. To be able to read a joy and gift given by our parents for they sent us to schools for formal education. 
    Don't wait. Let's READ!!