Last Day of Classes at Hillsboro

When someone tells me their club is special, I take it with a grain of salt. Most people who belong to clubs usually remain members because they like their club, but “special” that seems like a rarity to me.

There are clubs that are beautiful and clubs with great food or fabulous facilities or programs. Good clubs have nice people who work there and know the members by name. But what really makes a club different is one that has all those things and members who are interesting, kind and fun that all know each other and like each other.

When I was invited to come teach at the Hillsboro club, the manager told me it was a special place and asked me to stay over an extra day after the class was finished because the members would like it and I would enjoy it too.

I don’t usually stay an extra day anywhere, no matter how nice the club, because I usually want to get home. For some reason I decided to listen to this manger and took him up on the offer to spend an extra day.

I am so glad I listened to him. It is not because of the facilities, or the fabulous (too fabulous) food, but because the members have been so spectacular.

I had one woman who really wasn’t that interested in learning Mah Jongg, but she was humoring her daughter. She went from a skeptic to a mah Jongg winner in three days. Tonight she told me, “I didn’t want to do this but it was more fun than the time the pigs ate my brother.” Trust me, she meant that as a real compliment.

I am looking forward to going home to be with Russ and Shay, but I really cherish the friends I have already made here and I look forward to coming back to spend time with them again.