Wednesday, August 28, 2013

First Meeting

Hello all again!
Sorry about not posting when we were meeting here on the weekend.  I ended up sending out e-mails and posting it on HornetLife.  We had our first meeting today and wanted to let everyone know what we talked about for all who were unable to make it.

We had a great conversation on how Russia is slowly trying to gain more land space and what different countries around Russia speak Russian.  We then began to talk politics occurring in Russia and shared about getting together in solidarity with PRIDE.  A few suggestions that were made were for an educational aspect or reading poems/songs from the Russian GSM (Gender Sexual Minority).  If anyone else has any ideas on something we can do together, please post them or e-mail me!

It seems like many of us still want to continue learning the language so next week I will be bringing the cyrillic alphabet with pronunciations and a couple other previous posts to help.  I'm terrible with names, but one of the ladies there suggested t-shirts so we are looking into that for our club as well.

Next week we will talk about ideas to do with PRIDE as I went to their meeting and have a few ideas from that as well.  Sometime soon I will post a few things on what is going on in Russia with the laws against the GSM community.  After we discuss ideas, we will dive into the Russian language and continue learning it!

Thanks so much for everyone who was able to make it and I hope everyone has a great night and weekend!
Stephanie

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Welcome Back!

Wow...I hadn't realised I never posted a farewell on this for last semester!

Oh well, welcome back! I hope y'all enjoyed your summer and I'm looking forward to seeing everyone again! Speaking of which, what days and times are good for everyone to meet this semester? So far, Wednesdays seem to be looking better for some.  Does anyone else have suggestions, specifically for times to meet?

Come see us at the Activities Fair on campus tomorrow! I have some Russian tea cakes for all who come by.

I hope your semester goes off to a great start and I will post the date and time we are meeting by this weekend so please give your input as far as meeting times ASAP!

-Stephanie