Author Topic: Introductions...Please click here and tell us about YOU! (Read 199325 times)

pedln · « **Reply #400 on:** June 03, 2011, 01:11:50 PM »

Please post and introduce yourself! We're looking forward to getting to know you.

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pedln · « **Reply #401 on:** June 03, 2011, 01:13:16 PM »

Welcome Serafina! We're glad you're here. I love your fair city, especially your wonderful library downtown, and the Third Place Book Stores.

roshanarose · « **Reply #402 on:** June 03, 2011, 11:42:16 PM »

Hi and welcome from Australia, Serafina. Lovely name, btw

An angelic name?

marycopeland · « **Reply #403 on:** July 30, 2011, 09:39:52 PM »

Hello, everyone. I'm 57, and have just fulfilled one of my lifelong dreams... I just graduated from UCLA with my BA in History, earning college honors, summa cum laude, and highest honors in history. I start a masters program in the fall at Claremont Graduate University. They say there are no second acts in American lives... well, they are wrong, and I think I'm not alone in proving that -- I have the feeling that many of the people in this group can say the same. So here's to all of us!!!

I've enrolled in the Latin 101 class, and look forward to seeing you there.

marcie · « **Reply #404 on:** July 30, 2011, 11:14:34 PM »

Welcome, Mary. My congratulations on all that you've accomplished and your plans for the future. I'm glad that you've joined us. Perhaps you'll have time to join some of our book discussions too. We'll be talking about "Berlin 1961" by Frederick Kempe in September. The place to indicate your interest is at http://seniorlearn.org/forum/index.php?topic=2389.0. The book offers "fascinating history, dramatic with new research into documents never before explored."

Gumtree · « **Reply #405 on:** July 31, 2011, 05:54:00 AM »

Hi Mary - good to have you with us. You will just love Latin 101 - and your Latin instructor. I'm about to start 102 so won't meet you in Latin but hope to see you around the book discussions.

PatH · « **Reply #406 on:** July 31, 2011, 09:26:34 AM »

Welcome, Mary. My daughter got a Master's degree in Economics at Claremont, so I can picture the beautiful campus very well. She had a very good experience, with excellent teachers.

jane · « **Reply #407 on:** July 31, 2011, 12:11:45 PM »

Hi, Mary...

I've just emailed you the information about the Latin Class and the link to the Orientation Room where I ask all Latin 101 students who've enrolled to post. That is a discussion open ONLY to those who've registered for Latin 101. Please look for the email and keep the link handy.

jane

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #408 on:** July 31, 2011, 03:28:10 PM »

Hello MaryCopleland and welcome!

And congratulations on your fabulous achievements, I really admire you for doing all of that. I am not going to start the Latin this year as I have been involved in a very protracted house move that is just now reaching its culmination, but I am thinking of taking an OU course, and you have encouraged me to get on and enrol for it.

Best wishes with your Masters,

Rosemary

JoanK · « **Reply #409 on:** July 31, 2011, 07:00:24 PM »

HI, MARY. WELCOME, WELCOME!

I'm a late college-goer, too, getting my degree at abour your age. The woman getting her degree next to me was in her eighties. SENIORS ROCK!

And my niece got her masters at Claremont in Economics. What it your field?

Winchesterlady · « **Reply #410 on:** August 21, 2011, 02:19:26 PM »

Hi everyone. I’m a retired Federal Government worker from Winchester, VA. I actually joined the SeniorLearn Discussions several years ago, but only posted a couple times. Recently, I’ve started reading many of the book discussions so I think it’s time to introduce myself. I love to read and all things bookish. I’ve enjoyed reading all of your postings for some time now, so thought it might be time to join in.

JoanK · « **Reply #411 on:** August 21, 2011, 02:48:12 PM »

GREAT! WELCOME, WELCOME! I've been to lovely Winchester many times, when I lived in the Washington DC area. I'm a retired federal government worker, too (HUD).

Jump in with both feet wherever you want.

marcie · « **Reply #412 on:** August 21, 2011, 04:48:27 PM »

Welcome, Carol. It's great to know that you've been following some of the discussions here. I'm glad you're joining us.

roshanarose · « **Reply #413 on:** August 21, 2011, 10:46:01 PM »

Hi Carol

It is so good to have you join us.

rosemarykaye · « **Reply #414 on:** August 22, 2011, 02:24:14 AM »

Hello Carol, and welcome!

My SIL lives near Winchester, UK, but I imagine that the two places are quite different. Seeing any Virginia address reminds me of The Waltons and their blue ridge mountians - it must be a beautiful area to live in.

Rosemary

MarilynJ · « **Reply #415 on:** March 18, 2012, 05:28:23 PM »

Hello, all.

I just registered today, and I'm looking forward to discussions. I am more of a reader/lurker than a talker.

I hope that is allowed!

I live in upper East Tennessee, and we are having an early spring with pear trees in full bloom - lovely.

Will be seeing you in the groups.

Marilyn J.

jane · « **Reply #416 on:** March 18, 2012, 05:37:15 PM »

Welcome, Marilyn!

We're delighted you've found us. I hope you will, when the time feels right, join right in any of the discussions that interest you. There are no "wrong" comments here. We look forward to hearing your view on a topic when you're comfortable with that.

jane

JoanK · « **Reply #417 on:** March 18, 2012, 05:51:10 PM »

WELCOME WELCOME! as Jane says, there's no wrong way to do this -- only fun. And don't miss our word games.

And what kinds of books do you like?

roshanarose · « **Reply #418 on:** March 18, 2012, 10:04:47 PM »

Hi and Welcome MarilynJ - Great to have you join us!

marcie · « **Reply #419 on:** March 19, 2012, 10:27:38 AM »

Welcome, MarilynJ. It's certainly fine to follow along in any discussion. I look forward to hearing from you whenever you want to share a thought. I'm glad you've joined us.

ANNIE · « **Reply #420 on:** March 19, 2012, 10:55:07 AM »

Welcome welcome MarlilynJ and Carol. We look forward to seeing you around on our many sites here on SeniorLearn. We have quite a few lurkers and we are go glad that they enjoy our discussions. Anytime you want to let us know you are there, lurking, just give us a heads up in a post. I hope you enjoy our choices of books to read and discuss and don't forget our games plus our easy going genre discussions like Fiction, Non-Fiction, Mysteries and PBS and lots of others. CUonline!

La Jipita · « **Reply #421 on:** April 09, 2012, 04:09:03 PM »

Hello to all...
I'm a senior who is also a Senior undergraduate at one of the California State Universities. My major is Spanish with a minor in Latin American Studies. In the Fall I begin my Masters at New Mexico State (Online). My goal is to become a professor of Spanish. Reading and studying is the light of my life. I hope that by teaching Spanish I might open up communication between different ethnic groups, thereby removing much of the prejudice that sadly exists. Since Latin is the foundation of Spanish and other Latin American languages, I have come to the conclusion that I need more exposure to it. Thus, I plan on enrolling in the Fall in Latin 101.
I'm an old Hippie (as my username reflects) and live near Yosemite National Park in Califronia. My husband and I are both of Scottish-Irish geneology...He's my Viking warrior! I truly look forward to getting to know many of you.

La Jipita · « **Reply #422 on:** April 09, 2012, 04:11:02 PM »

Oops!...California, that is

jane · « **Reply #423 on:** April 09, 2012, 04:17:46 PM »

Welcome, La Jipita!! We're delighted you've found us. I believe you and I have corresponded about the Latin class for fall.

I'm delighted you've registered a username and are working your way around the site. It'll make our Latin "orientation" near the time your classes start a LOT easier!!

Be sure to check out the Classics Bulletin Board, located further down on your index page.

http://seniorlearn.org/forum/index.php

and then click on Classics Bulletin Board

ginny · « **Reply #424 on:** April 09, 2012, 05:52:37 PM »

Hola, La Jipita, and welcome!!

Reading and studying is the light of my life. You have definitely come to the right place and we know you will love our Latin courses here and the people you meet in them!! We are so glad to see you here and to learn of your impressive course work, and aims.

Welcome, welcome, welcome!!

marcie · « **Reply #425 on:** April 09, 2012, 10:33:10 PM »

Welcome, La Jipita. It's wonderful that you want to teach Spanish and increase understanding among different ethnic groups.

How fortunate for you that you live near wonderful Yosemite.

I'm very glad you've joined us!

JoanK · « **Reply #426 on:** April 10, 2012, 06:40:00 PM »

WELCOME WELCOME! Do browse our book sites until class starts (and after as well).

I also went back to school in mid-life and changed careers. It's very exciting, isn't it.I live in California as well, but near LA.

Dalice · « **Reply #427 on:** April 24, 2012, 10:19:33 AM »

I've just found the site. I am an Australian expat living in Prague - until late last year I was living in the UAE. I am embarking on the adventure of becoming a freelance writer. My first connections in Prague have been through a reading group and the coordinator headed us toward this site. Most of the group aren't seniors, but I am over 50. I've spent a large part of my working life in human resource development - learning and lifelong learning are dear to my heart. I enjoy the challenge of new things and if things settle down soon, will seriously contemplate signing up to learn Latin. Though learning Czech has to be my next priority.

Looking forward to learning ...

marcie · « **Reply #428 on:** April 24, 2012, 10:41:20 AM »

Welcome, Dalice! What interesting pursuits you are undertaking! I hope you'll let us know how you are doing. I'm glad that you've joined us. We have many topics in which you might find interest.

ginny · « **Reply #429 on:** April 24, 2012, 10:42:09 AM »

Welcome, Dalice!

We are delighted to see you here, and your coordinator is really on the ball. Lifelong learning is our "thing," and you'll be in great company.

You would love the Latin classes, and we've got great book discussions here, too, and you can teach us Czech at the same time!

We have Australians here, too, it's an international community, but nobody that I know of from Prague, so you'd be our first!

You don't have to be over 50 to take our classes, many of our students are young, some are college students, but we're really not set up to do high school supplementary courses for credit, that's why we focus on adults: we've all ages here.

We also have some aspiring writers. I wish you all the best, many really great writers started after 50, how exciting.

Welcome, welcome, welcome! Make yourself at home!

ANNIE · « **Reply #430 on:** April 24, 2012, 01:28:16 PM »

Welcome, Dalice. We are glad to have you here. I just have to ask how your instructor in Prague knew about us?? Are we famous or infamous?Tee hee! Hope you enjoy this site as much as our members seem to.

We have an Authors Corner you might want to peek into. We haven't really heard from many authors though. So, just right in and say hello and tell us about the book you want to write. Here's a link: http://seniorlearn.org/forum/index.php?board=108.0

roshanarose · « **Reply #431 on:** April 24, 2012, 10:33:42 PM »

Hi Dalice and Welcome ... I, too, am Australian but I live in Brisbane, Australia. Today is ANZAC Day - Lest We Forget.

PatH · « **Reply #432 on:** April 25, 2012, 11:30:15 AM »

Welcome, Dalice. In addition to out super Latin classes, we have a lot of different casual discussions and always an in-depth book discussion. Come in and look around, and see what interests you.

emassee · « **Reply #433 on:** May 03, 2012, 01:12:08 PM »

Hi. Thanks for your wonderful forum. I am a public librarian and one of our book club members mentioned SeniorLearn at our last meeting. We were able to find some thought-provoking questions to use in our discussion of The Elegance of the Hedgehog.

JoanK · « **Reply #434 on:** May 03, 2012, 03:16:03 PM »

WELCOME WELCOME! I hope you will join some of our discussions as well. Where are you from?

jane · « **Reply #435 on:** May 03, 2012, 06:50:43 PM »

Welcome, emassee,

You'll find several of us are retired librarians, and many belong to various f2f bookclubs as well as participating here.

jane

marcie · « **Reply #436 on:** May 04, 2012, 12:21:14 AM »

Welcome, emassee. We're glad that you found us and hope that you'll make yourself at home.

JoanP · « **Reply #437 on:** May 04, 2012, 10:46:06 AM »

emassee, Welcome! Didn't you love The Elegance of the Hedgehog? So happy to hear that you found our discussion helpful to your own group's discussion. Every month we discuss another book in depth - as we did the Hedgehog.

Next up - three Greek plays - starting with Antigone. You might look in at the Classics Club's - Women in Greek Drama

We are also in the process of selecting a June discussion title. You can jump right in that discussion to see the nominated titles - or to add one of your own, if you like! This is going on right now in the Suggestion Box

Patricia · « **Reply #438 on:** September 05, 2012, 07:24:13 AM »

Hello,

My name is Patricia. I live in Adamstown, Maryland, and I am looking forward to our Latin course.

Regards.

JoanP · « **Reply #439 on:** September 05, 2012, 07:46:39 AM »

Good morning, Patricia. Welcome to Seniorlearn. Signing up for the Latin was a good move. I know you will be happy with the classes.

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Author Topic: Introductions...Please click here and tell us about YOU! (Read 199325 times)

marycopeland

MarilynJ

La Jipita

La Jipita

Dalice

emassee