Attended the Sunrise Bay Board Meeting yesterday and was pleased to hear the trustees vote to resume allowing private gatherings in the clubhouse. For the last two years, they hadn't been permitted because a resident had had a party during which damage was caused. (Some big mouth got up and argued against it, saying "kids'll be in the exercise room and in the pool." Sure, and we're planning to invite a horde of kids of all ages, the older ones bringing in booze and dope....)
Anyway, that's where our fiftieth anniversary celebration will be. I lost no time in reserving the clubhouse for June 21, then zipped up to Sea Oaks to ask for my $200 deposit back. I was grateful that they agreed to send me a check. Uh...I may have based my refund request on Pat's worsening condition, but that's at least semi-true. (We can always find a way to excuse ourselves--but nobody else--from being honest.)
During the meeting, I got a cell phone call from the Tuckerton Library, asking if I'd be able to conduct a Conversational English class that evening. I had almost forgotten I had signed up as a volunteer--we met last October for orientation--but I agreed. The library person apologized for the late notice, but said the two women who wanted to participate had just called.
As it turned out, one "student" didn't show, but I found the other delightful. Her name is Genny and she's from Peru; she's been in the U.S.for 5 years. She's a live-in caregiver for a woman who lives in the golf community of Sea Oaks and has Alzheimer's.
I decided to use our first meeting simply to get to know her and we talked back and forth for about 45 minutes. Her English really isn't bad, she just needs practice. When she said something incorrectly pronounced or structured, I instinctively repeated it correctly back to her as a question. ("Two year ago, I live in Texas." "You lived in Texas two years ago?") When I talked to Ellen later, she said that's the way she had been told to subtly correct non-native speakers.
Genny and I will meet again next Monday; she said her friend wants to come, also.
Talked to both D.D.s when I got home, always my favorite part of the day. Alison and I made a date to have her come down on Sunday, the twentieth, to make plans for the fiftieth anniversary bash.
Susan, Barb H., and I will go to lunch today, to celebrate our birthdays in December, March, and June.