Figure 8 was Just Great

I just returned home from three great days teaching at the Figure 8 Island yacht Club. It was a perfectly wonderful three days of classes with so many fabulous women. This was my second summer there and it was even better than last year.

I am not exactly sure how I lucked into this career, but I am so thankful that at this late stage of life this is what I get to do. Teaching mah Jongg is part stand up, part story teller, and part bossy older sister.

As much as I love teaching beginners, that is easy. Teaching people rules is fine. Lots of people do it just fine.

Teaching the Beyond the beginner class is not a class that I have found anyone else does, certainly not the way I do it. Beyond beginner is teaching people how to think and strategy and it is as much fun for me as it is for the students. At least they tell me it’s fun and they come back again and again as every class is different.

Thanks Figure 8 Ladies for being such a great group. I look forward to our paths crossing again.