Because of the Memorial Day holiday, we won’t meet May 27th.

We’ll meet as usual on June 3rd.

During the summer we’ll meet just once a week and someplace off-campus. Our tentative plan is to meet Mondays at 6:00 PM at the Blind Pig Brewery (120 N. Neil St., Champaign, Illinois).

Both the place and the time are provisional. If you want to attend but can’t, let us know what the difficulty is. We’ll try to find a time and place which works for everybody.

Because of the Thanksgiving holiday, the Sunday discussion table for both November 18th and November 25th is canceled.

In addition, we’re going to turn the regular beginner’s class for Monday, November 19th into an informal meeting. Since the Foreign Language Building may well be locked up, let’s meet instead at the same time (5:00 PM), but meet upstairs at the Espresso Royal at 1117 W Oregon St. in Urbana. (That’s at the corner of Goodwin, and right across from the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.) We’ll speak a little Esperanto and maybe talk about plans for the Zamenhof Festo.

Please let me know if you’re coming Monday, so we can keep an eye out for you in the Espresso Royale.

Regular meetings will resume with the Monday, November 26th.

For the fall semester, we’re meeting twice each week:

Mondays we meet for the beginners class at 5:00 PM in room 1138 of the Foreign Language Building.

Sundays we meet for out discussion table at 2:15 PM in the lobby of the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts.

Quad Day was great fun. We spoke to many students and added around 100 to our mailing list. and handed out around 500 fliers.

In the picture, Darcy, Dan, and Omar talk to two students about how much fun we have in our club.

We’ve had a request to change the meeting time to 6:00 or 6:30 PM. So this message is mainly to ask: Would one of those times work better for you? In particular, is there anyone who would come to meetings as currently scheduled (5:00 PM) who wouldn’t be able to come at one of those times?

Please respond to the list, or privately to me.

In the meantime, since we don’t have a time pinned down, it probably makes most sense to skip today’s meeting and plan to resume next week at whatever time we decide on.

Once again (like last year) we’ll meet in the Foreign Language Building. We haven’t yet reserved a room, so we’ll meet in the area through the main doors and then select a room that’s free. (If you arrive late, check the nearby classrooms—you’ll find us.

Time: 5:00 PM for the social quarter-hour; we’ll start class at 5:15.

At the end of the summer and the beginning of the semester, here are our next few meetings:

• Good bye to Chris: Thursday the 18th of August, at 2:00 PM en the Espresso Royale on Goodwin, upstairs.
• Quad Day: Sunday the 21st of August, in our booth on the quad.
• Intro to Esperanto: The 25th of August from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM in room 212 HoHo (the Honors House at 1205 W. Oregon St. in Urbana).

Come!

I just learned about Facila Vento, a new web-magazine for beginners:

Facila Vento

It has easy-to-read articles on many topics. The articles are also read aloud, so you can practice your listening skills.

A great resource for beginners and mid-level Esperantists.