East and West Learning Connections
This online club meets ALMOST every week to read books together, chapter by chapter. Club members, who come from diverse backgrounds and live in different countries, take turns to present the chapter(s) they volunteer to lead the reading of and facilitate the breakout room discussion that follows. We welcome you to join us and bring your unique life experience and perspective to the discussion!
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At East & West Dialogue, volunteer guest speakers from different cultural backgrounds come to East and West Learning Connections to share their living experiences, expertise, thoughts, and have a dialogue with our audience.
This month, we are very much honoured to be joined by two humble, but highly achieving Canadians who have big hearts for the world. Come to see how they have developed their overseas charitable work from Canada over many years, in a secular and apolitical way, and discuss how such acts of kindness, whether big or small, can easily be achieved!
Time: Saturday September 28, 2024 at 7:30-9 P.M. (Eastern Time)
Please RSVP to info@eawlc.org if you wish to participate in person, or register the online Zoom session.
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By Yang Wang
April 15, 2024
I hosted an eating-out for a blind women’s group last month on St. Patrick’s Day. In the group each member takes turns to organize an outing, usually to a restaurant of their choice.
I invited members to a Chinese restaurant, the Asian Legend in Scarborough. It was a bit of travel for some members who lived in the Downtown area or in the West end of the city. But hey, there were lots of authentic Chinese restaurants in Scarborough. And people in Scarborough spent that much time travelling to Downtown or further for work or entertainment all the time. I really wished we had had more subway lines extended to this east end of the city! The biggest truth was I had a ski accident in February, and was still having some headaches and dizziness so I took the advantage of being a host, and chose a good and relatively familiar restaurant that was nearby me. Anyway finally Five of us sat down at a Lazy Susan round table, and began to order.
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*We are constantly recruiting native English-speaking facilitator volunteers for the English Social Conversation program! Please see the invitation message at the end of this announcement.
Have you ever wondered what to talk about in a social conversation? Or, as an immigrant, do you sometimes feel it is difficult to join your local co-workers’ conversation because you don’t know the people or things they are talking about, or you have some everyday questions that you would like to know how local people would think or deal with? Or do you just want to find a safe, relaxing and friendly environment to talk to some native English speakers, and enjoy a pleasant conversation?
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