A new French club in Blandford

Tags

Blandford, extracurricular activities, French language, French speakers, postaday2013

One of the members of the Blandford Historical Society asked me if I would be interested in leading a French club at the Blandford library. She is a very active member in our community, she is Blandford’s local reporter for the Country Journal, she is President of the Blandford White Church Steering Committee, she is also on the Board of Directors of the Historical Society. Moreover she is one of the Massachusetts Library Commissioners, so as you can see, even in retirement, she is one busy lady. She made me tired just describing all of her duties.

Anyway, she would like me to lead the group since I have all of the “expertise”. I am partially looking forward to this and partially dreading it. I do have hermit-like tendencies which I know isn’t a very good quality to have. I am very happy being alone and I do usually need to be strong armed into social gatherings. Once I am there then I am fine; it is the getting there that gives me trouble. I really don’t know why I balk so much at getting out to socialize because intellectually I know that I will talk and laugh but getting there feels like such a battle in my head. There are times that I dread the whole process of deciding what to wear and then wearing it and then going. It’s like the skiing thing, I easily convince myself that it’s too tiring, too much work and just too much. I am going to go ahead and lead the French group and try not to talk myself out of anything. I should embrace people and socializing, a little can go a long way. It will be good for me, right?

The fictional character of your choice?

If you could be any fictional character in the world, who would you choose to be? Why?

When I was younger I was a huge Nancy Drew fan. I had the whole series and when I had nothing else to read, I reread those books because I thought that Nancy Drew was the smartest girl and someone who I looked up to, I was about nine at the time and looking back Nancy Drew was a great role model for young girls. Another heroine that I loved reading about was Anne of Green Gables along with Laura from Little House on the Prairie. All these characters represented qualities that I aspired to having, being responsible, studious, dependable and honest. They also mapped out what I have, since then, looked for in future heroines such as Elizabeth Bennet, my favorite fictional character of all time. I can relate to her and her circumstance. She is someone who, if she were alive, would be a friend. I suppose that is the main theme in my love of reading; finding characters who would be friends and companions, characters that would give me something to think about and adventures to imagine and occupy my thoughts.