Anyone Attending "The Gathering" in New Brunswick, NJ?

kent4str and I are planning to attend "The Gathering," a day-long mini-convention for square dance & round dance callers & club leaders in New Brunswick, NJ, Saturday, September 27. Anyone else perchance planning to attend?

cuyahogarvr will be travelling with us but is planning to visit with friends in the area for the day rather than party with dance callers & club leaders. :-)

Anyone Attending "The Gathering" in New Brunswick, NJ?

kent4str and I are planning to attend "The Gathering," a day-long mini-convention for square dance & round dance callers & club leaders in New Brunswick, NJ, Saturday, September 27. Anyone else perchance planning to attend?

cuyahogarvr will be travelling with us but is planning to visit with friends in the area for the day rather than party with dance callers & club leaders. :-)

Memory Class #1

Tonight was our first class with caller_dayle's "Improve Your Memory" course offered via Howard County Community College. There were seven people signed up although one was a no-show. Still, we have Loren, Crystal, Marta, Nuryan (sp?), kent4str and myself.

Tonight's session was about memorizing lists of items by imagining some form of strange but memorable linkage between each pairing. As long as we could then remember the first item, we could use any combination of exaggerated numbers, exaggerated proportions, emotionally-jarring connections or whatever to remember the next item. Repeat between items #2 and #3, then between #3 and #4, until the list is memorized.

After a group examination of a list of 21 items using a series of associations proffered by caller_dayle, we then had to memorize a new list of 30 items on our own. These were (from memory): dog, orange, airplane, man, paper, steak, stop sign, cliff, gun, tv, bomb, wall, hair, candle, piano, stairs, heart, boss, doctor, ambulance, school, tooth, handle, rain, umbrella, cactus, cigarette, knife, soda and stage.

In all, it's lots of fun but I'm having to keep my more competitive instincts restrained. :-)

Looking forward to next week's class!

Memory Class #1

Tonight was our first class with caller_dayle's "Improve Your Memory" course offered via Howard County Community College. There were seven people signed up although one was a no-show. Still, we have Loren, Crystal, Marta, Nuryan (sp?), kent4str and myself.

Tonight's session was about memorizing lists of items by imagining some form of strange but memorable linkage between each pairing. As long as we could then remember the first item, we could use any combination of exaggerated numbers, exaggerated proportions, emotionally-jarring connections or whatever to remember the next item. Repeat between items #2 and #3, then between #3 and #4, until the list is memorized.

After a group examination of a list of 21 items using a series of associations proffered by caller_dayle, we then had to memorize a new list of 30 items on our own. These were (from memory): dog, orange, airplane, man, paper, steak, stop sign, cliff, gun, tv, bomb, wall, hair, candle, piano, stairs, heart, boss, doctor, ambulance, school, tooth, handle, rain, umbrella, cactus, cigarette, knife, soda and stage.

In all, it's lots of fun but I'm having to keep my more competitive instincts restrained. :-)

Looking forward to next week's class!