April's Monthly Meeting/4-24-2013

April’s Monthly Meeting

            There are five of us attending today’s monthly meeting. The sharing of reading summary started with Lily. The book she has been reading is called “Charlotte’s Web” by E.B. White. Lily didn’t have a written summary for she was not able to finish the book. It started from a farm owned by father of a girl named Fern. There was this runt pig who was too weak to make a good or valuable profit. Fern’s father was considering to finish the piglet. But Fern would like to keep the small pig and treat him like a baby. Fern fed the little pig with bottled milk and it grew! Fern’s uncle took in the pig and kept it in his farm living with other domestic animals. This was where Lily’s bookmark labeled. Sherri read this book before and told the members that this is a good classic book and the primary characters are Charlotte, the ever wise spider, and others. We can’t wait for Lily to finish this book and share what she would learn from this book.

            Ruby read about life of the genius, Albert Einstein. In her summary, there were years and eras stating the genius’s discoveries and contributions to the human world. E=MC2 stands for Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.

E= energy M=mass C= the speed of light 2= squared (a number times itself)
A famous equation created by Albert Einstein in relation to his Special Theory of Relativity.
Because the speed of light is a very large number and is multiplied by itself, this equation points out how a small amount of matter can release a huge amount of energy, as in a nuclear reaction.
In average human terms, e=mc^2 basically represents the amount of energy you'd get if you totally converted an object's mass into pure energy.

            When Ruby finished her book report interesting thing happened: Otoor read the same topic though by different author. This was the second time similar situation took place at our meetings. Shaking my head I wondered what this meant to our group. It’s a good sign that members tried and read nonfiction after reading fictions. As I stated in the beginning of this reading club that the best way and attitude toward learning the language of English is to overcome the concept and thought of “learning.” We are here to savor and enjoy the beauty of the English language and get better of using it to serve our individual purposes. It looks like members of this group are growing and gaining their own sense of self-growth and soul development. It’s a gain I look forward to acquiring and maintaining.

            “The Language of Flowers” was the book Sherri read and shared with the reading group. It’s about a lady who had difficulty holding bond with others. She grew up in a foster family and didn’t have the ability to build or keep relationship with anyone. But she is good at flowers and excels at helping customers to pick the kind of flowers meaningful to them. Eventually she met a young man who is also good at detecting the language of flowers. They had a daughter and the lady had to give away her daughter to the young man who was the father of the infant girl. At the end, the young man was able to use the language of flower to break down the lady and together they had a good ending.

            Because of this book about flowers and their meanings the group decided to talk more about flowers, their meanings, and what they are to people.

            We look forward to seeing each other again next Wednesday.