New Card Class is Coming

It’s January! So Mah Jongg players start dreaming about the new card that comes out on April 1. For the last five years I have taught a New Card Orientation class. It started small and now it is a world tour.

I don’t get the new card any earlier than anyone else. So when it does come I have about six to seven days to play the card and analyze it and write my 80+ slide power point presentation.

The big thing I have to do is figure out what the new Charleston decision tree is going to be, based on the new hands. I have to play a lot of games in six days. Russ will come in a room where I have multiple computers going and say, “Are you still playing mah Jongg?” I look at him exasperated and say, “I AM WORKING.”

As hard as it is to get ready to teach new card classes, this time of year is worse.

This time of year I am promoting my classes and having people sign up for class.

As of today I have fourteen different classes in different locations as well as a zoom class on the calendar. Some classes are controlled by the country club where I will be teaching them. Some classes I keep track of the class lists and the payments.

Either way I have to ensure that there are enough seats for the people who sign up. So as I trickle out the word that it is time to sign up I am inundated with people signing up so they make sure to get into the class they want. Some people in the past waited until the last minute only to be shut out of their first choice. I am so sorry when that happens. So those people sign up fast now.

Responding to all the inquiries is a full time job unto itself. I consider my students friends and I love hearing from them. I just hope they all understand I don’t have time to write long messages back to each of them. It’s purely because I am getting a couple of hundred messages every couple of days.

I try and send out emails to class groups who have taken classes from me to alert them that new card classes are available. I always alert the newest players first because they need the most help. So some of you might have received an email from me already. Some will soon get an email and some may never get an email because I had such a bad system of keeping emails long ago.

Or sometimes people don’t write their email in a way I can read it in my class book. Sorry, I couldn’t read your hand writing.

So let this blog alert you that April is coming fast. You can find all my new card classes, along with all my classes at www.learnmahjongg.com

Don’t wait to sign up. You can contact me through my website if you have questions. Feel free to tell your friends. My zoom class is recorded so if you can’t make an in person class and the zoom class is not a good time for you, you can always get a video of the zoom class.

I too am excited about the new card. By this time of year I am ready. Just a few months to go!