The question was posed to me earlier this week. How do you meet people, make friends, date, or otherwise socialize in the Warner Robins, Perry, Macon, or just in the Middle Georgia area? This person is not from here so he does not have the usual outlets that most do here.
I told him that there are cliques that still hang out as they did in school. Long time neighbors that have bonn fires on cold nights. Fishing and Hunting buddies that hang out on a regular basis. There are bars in town and places such as WOW Cafe that has a combo of bar but also great food to eat (wings!) but who wants to hang out at a bar?
I suggested our book club. A book club such as the Middle Georgia Book Club is a relaxed way to get to know people. Men and Women, all ages, races, backgrounds can come together and have a topic already picked out. Then the awkwardness that usually accompanies meeting someone is gone because you have something in common to talk about. A BOOK! an interesting book that all the others of the group have an opinion about.
The books we pick already have a list of questions in the back of them so we don't even have to think of what to talk about at all. We can just meet and freely offer up our opinion about the book. The questions are listed by number and we can start at 1 and continue until we run out of questions.
With the awkwardness gone, a way to meet new people, and it is free! Why not?
We are still waiting for members to pick a date, time, and place for our next meeting. I hope any of you reading this will complete the survey here on the page and keep checking back for postings of the next meeting and book we will be reading. We have a suggested reading list of some really good books.
Happy Reading!
Members of the Middle Georgia Book Club
I told him that there are cliques that still hang out as they did in school. Long time neighbors that have bonn fires on cold nights. Fishing and Hunting buddies that hang out on a regular basis. There are bars in town and places such as WOW Cafe that has a combo of bar but also great food to eat (wings!) but who wants to hang out at a bar?
I suggested our book club. A book club such as the Middle Georgia Book Club is a relaxed way to get to know people. Men and Women, all ages, races, backgrounds can come together and have a topic already picked out. Then the awkwardness that usually accompanies meeting someone is gone because you have something in common to talk about. A BOOK! an interesting book that all the others of the group have an opinion about.
The books we pick already have a list of questions in the back of them so we don't even have to think of what to talk about at all. We can just meet and freely offer up our opinion about the book. The questions are listed by number and we can start at 1 and continue until we run out of questions.
With the awkwardness gone, a way to meet new people, and it is free! Why not?
We are still waiting for members to pick a date, time, and place for our next meeting. I hope any of you reading this will complete the survey here on the page and keep checking back for postings of the next meeting and book we will be reading. We have a suggested reading list of some really good books.
Happy Reading!
Members of the Middle Georgia Book Club
I couldn't vote for a time or date? Good write up on how to socialize. I missed the last two meetings but once we get the schedule straight I am there.
ReplyDeleteWhen is the next time ur group is going to meet?
ReplyDeleteI couldn't vote either
ReplyDeleteWhen is their going to be another meeting?
7:30 works better on Fridays
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