Our last class for the month of May. Boy, this month sure went fast. We received some news today that one of our group members is in the hospital. We wish Anne a quick recovery and hope to have her back in class very soon! We really missed her tonight.

We made some changes to our class based on the feedback from the participants through the evaluation we had last week. We will no longer use tent cards (assigned seating). Everyone understands how important it is for us to mix up our seating arrangemetns a bit, so will try to do that on our own without having anyone assign where we sit. We also completed a survey of what videos we want to watch next. By having the participants pick what we watch, we should see more involved discussion.

Tonight we started the new video series focusing on being People Smart. I chose the first video to watch & then the next several videos will be chosen by the participants. Tonight's lesson was on joining clubs/groups and how it helps us to meet new people. Other things we talked about included:
• In relationships, you get what you give.
• It is easy to find reasons not to do something. But always saying now may mean you miss out on fun and opportunities.
• It is important to be cautious about joining groups that can be unsafe or dangerous.
• If you don’t like one of the meetings, you don’t have to go back.
• You are never the only one who may be nervous or worried when you join a group.

Everyone had an assignment for next time we meet. We should explore a new club or group that we want to join and share this information with everyone at class. We finished up the night by reading some of our new book - Indiana Jones. Here are some comments from participants:

Bryce – My friend Anne got sick and has pneumonia. Tonight it was only me, Emily, Erin, Chana and Kristen. And we went to Subway. I had a $5 sub. We learned some brand new stuff. We will be starting our new book.

Erin – hi how are you we are have fun in are class this time we staring a new tape it is call people smart it is a good time to be with people in clubs like book club, story club, or wine club, and some other clubs it is going to be a lot of fun to be in clubs I now I am have fun in book club I wish Anne was with us I now she is get the help now she is get help from the Dr. from the hospital