Wednesday 26th February 2020

Cherry blossom

After our break last week we will be back to discuss current affairs.

We also want to fix a date for the election of the new board.

Asociación Educativa Oscar Wilde

On February 12th we have our annual meeting.

For ten years Asociación Educativa Oscar Wilde has been a meeting place for people interested in different  aspects of the English language.

We named our association after Oscar Wilde in deference to his humour, his humanity and his genius.

At first we were a virtual  reality... meeting for walks, doing our paperback  book exchanges in the library and  sharing  our love of literature in our shared readings at the library,
We went  on outings to pantomimes and plays.We approached local businesses to sponsor our pub quizzes, local schools to do playground games. It was all about taking the ball and playing with it. The ball being the English language. We also held story writing competitions and were privileged to have the support of the Irish Embassy in Madrid. We published beautiful books with the entries.

Then we were allocated  a room in la Universidad Popular San Sebastián De Los Reyes where we had activities for children and conversations for adults as well as a space for our books and DVD collection.Videos too!

Now we go on walks occasionally and continue to have interesting conversations in our room. It is time to pass on the baton, confident that we address the needs of  people who love languages, in this case English and who just want to be able to it.

Current events and yesterday's discussion

With the interesting data from W.H.O. and with a doctor in the room to give us more guidance, (Thank you, Lola) we learned a lot about the coronavirus and how to protect ourselves from contagion .

What we know about the coronavirus

Our discussion led us to other viruses different countries have had to deal with in the past. 

Let’s hope that the world’s medical forces get all the support they need to tackle this deadly virus and stop it from spreading. We appreciate their invaluable work.