Salvation Armani Adventure!

As per our discussion last night at Marianne's, we are planning an adventure into the city as an extension of our next book, Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet. The proposed agenda is to begin at Chateau Ste. Michelle for wine tasting (they open at 11:00). Then we continue on to the Bellevue Salvation Army store, where we each choose 3 fantastic and fun outfits for ourselves, then have the rest of the group decide on which one of those we actually buy. After donning our chosen outfits, we will finish up with a celebratory dinner at the Melting Pot restaurant (you may want to check out their website meltingpot.com to whet your appetite).

So now all we need is a date! Three possible dates are below. Please respond to each and every date with a yes or no vote, as to whether you could do it then (I can do all 3, so I'll give all of them yeses). Be sure to respond by February 19th so we can get this firmed up and on our calendars!

Dates: Thursday, March 25

Friday, April 16

Thursday, April 22

"A Long Way Gone"

Hi BWTers,
This Thursday evening we are meeting at my place to discuss “A Long Way Gone”. There are numerous interviews on YouTube that Ishmael Beah has given that you can watch. I’ve picked two below that I think give you a feel of who he is and leave you with a lot to think about. Both are around 7 minutes long and are very different from each other.

One interview is with Jon Stewart: http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/wed-february-14-2007/ishmael-beah (On my computer it took a while to get the interview to start; I had to first wait for an ad to run and then there was a blank screen for a couple of minutes, but it did eventually come on)

In the second video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nsKTM3XiVA Ishmael talks about why he wrote the book and he makes the statement (around the 3:15 mark), “everyone is capable of going beyond their own humanity and doing certain things that are not humane”, “…this is part of human nature”. I felt that was a thought provoking comment and a good one for discussion. What do you think?

See you Thursday!
Marianne