With the conversion to the new website format, I have been unable to access this blog for awhile to provide anyone with updates. The class continues to meet and I will continue to update as we move forward. Last night, we started off the night at one of our favorite places to eat - Hoageez. The food is good, but more importantly it is a quiet place where we can all visit with each other easily. We are all very comfortable meeting here!

Thankfully we were all able to participate tonight. We reviewed our activity from last week on volunteering. Everyone has had some great experiences volunteering & there was a lot of discussion about how great the people are that we meet through these activities. We also watched a video on how important it is to keep agreements/promises we make with others. The following are some highlights from our conversation on this topic:
• Trust is very important with friendships. Keeping your word to your friends can be one of the most important things you can do to keep that person as a friend.
• When you break promises with a friend, you show that you are immature.
• Be clear when you make agreements with others and don't make promises that you can't keep.
We did finish out the discussion with an activity & will be revisiting this at our class next week. The evening ended with us reading our books. We are at the tail end of the Indiana Jones book and I think we are all very excited to start our new book soon. Our next clas will be on September 22nd and we will be eating at Dairy Queen. The following are some comments made by Erin and Bryce about our class last night.

Bryce: My cousin is getting married next year. Tonight we learned about keeping our promises. I think it is a good topic for me to help me keep my promise to my family. We had Hoageez, I had corn dogs with fries and a bottle of pop.

Erin: we wash a move a about be on time and get to work and I have a best friend name Chana and we went to Hoageez and we take and we are not done with are book we are hafe done in it we are going to stare are new book soon and I have a lot of friends in book club it is fun in book club some time.