Bliss English Club

 My Dear Blisses,

Surprise! Surprise!

Newly launches a remarkable travel experience before shared on the paper or TV.

A Hot-baked Version will be presented by our elegant and intelligent Blisser, a professional traveler, Jessica, who just came back from her modern “Robinson” stay in a Japanese isolated island and offers her instant support for Peter as well as Blisses.

If you love to travel, you surely won’t miss the chance to sip the taste of “Exotic Food and Experience” from Jessica on Aug. 19, 2017!!!

Introduction by Jessica:

This island has only a few hundred residents. It’s hard for you to see 10 people show up at same time. The blue coast and white sand beach are the only landscape. Time seems frozen in this area here.

Even though just a tiny island but people are dedicated to keep their environment clean and have good sense of healthy daily style.

Elderly grow the rice to make wine, vinegar, Miso, soy sauce, and yeast. All the family members grow vegetables and fruit to make pickles, jam tofu, sugar. Men go diving and fishing to get lobsters, shells, squids, Shell, squids easily. We have various sashimis almost every day. 

People made everything by hand, such as building the house, knitting cloth, dyeing sheet or tying brooms. People who live here are highly confident by saying” we live in heaven.”

Let me share my life experience in heaven and handmade pickles together. Please bring you own chopstick if you like to try pickles, thank you.

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<Recap of “Let’s Play” by Vicky on Aug 12, 2017>

Host: Vicky Lu

Topic:” Let’s Play”
Attendees: Kevin.H, Fox ,Cindy, Lynn ,Selina ,Daniel Yang ,Ellen & Nania

Meeting Photo:

https://goo.gl/photos/ac4gJryhyPn4UmUa6

With lot of surprise and pleasures , we receive a lot of “old Blissers” back to Vicky’s meeting on 8/12….

In the warm up session , after the quick self-introduction , we started with the “Ask Anything” game introduced by Vicky , which she asked each of us to ask one sensitive yes/no question in turns then vote for the answer anonymously and then each of us guess how many “yes” in the total votes ….the one who guessed the right number of votes of" yes" most would be the winner then….to our surprise , our young talent –Nania got the most right answers and it seemed she understood what was in Blissers’ mind most though she just joined Bliss last year !!

 
After the warm up session , Vicky separated the Blissers to 2 teams (A&B) , and started to play the card board game – “Dixit”.

Each player starts the game with six random cards. Players then take turns being the storyteller. The player whose turn it is to be storyteller looks at the six images in his or her hand. From one of these, he or she makes up a sentence or phrase or a story that might describe it and says it out loud (without showing the card to the other players).

Each other player then selects from among their own six cards the one that best matches the sentence given by the storyteller. Then, each player gives their selected card to the storyteller, without showing it to the others. The storyteller shuffles his or her chosen card with the cards received from the other players, and all cards are then dealt face up. The players (except for the storyteller) then secretly guess which picture was the storyteller's, using numbered voting chips.

If nobody or everybody finds the correct picture, the storyteller scores 0, and each of the other players scores 2. Otherwise the storyteller and all players who found the correct answer score 3. Players other than the storyteller score 1 point for each vote their own pictures received.

A large part of the skill of the game comes from being able, when acting as the storyteller, which is neither too obscure (such that no other player can identify it) nor too obvious (such that every player is able to guess it).

The game ends when a player reaches the end of the board (30 points).In the end, Kevin was the Winner from team A while Yvonne was the winner from team B.

Reflections:

Thanks to Vicky’s guidance and all the Blissers enjoyed the card board playing time as much as the story telling from each of the Blissers , we all definitely spent a fun and relaxing afternoon together and most importantly, playing and having fun in English .

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