Someone asked about our “new” courses we always advertise in our Community Education catalog. They wondered if we keep adding courses every year? I explained that of our 160 or so total classes each session, about one-third are “new” in that they are being offered for the first time.
To show off this session’s newest offerings, I thought it would be fun to imagine what the schedule would be for an imaginary student taking all new courses only.
You would start in the kitchen, baking bread with Anthony Coden and making and decorating cakes with Yvonne Gonzales. Yvonne would then show you how to make another type of cake - a Diaper Cake! Don’t worry, you won’t have to come up with icing for that one - it’s a special baby shower gift made of disposable diapers. Of course before you have baby showers, you have weddings, and Yvonne even has a new class on how to make your own wedding veil.
Since it is a wedding, you need jewelry. Linda Flores is teaching a new Basic Beading course, where you create your very own necklace. Prefer rocks? Then on to the rock shop, where they would cut and polish stones in Lee Adams’ new Advanced Lapidary course.
Now we are getting into crafts. Jack Thorn will show you how to make coasters, wallets, or bookcovers out of leather in his first-time leather carving class.
As the day goes on, you would move to your new Interior Decorating class by Ann Witherwax. Then outdoors for a little hands-on homesteading. Ann is also teaching how to raise chickens and collect eggs! Oh the joy of baby chicks.
What would hens in the bread dough be without a little fiddling to put it into song? Cathy Learoyd will help you do just that in Just Fiddlin’ Around. Not interested in fiddling? Don’t fret (sorry), we have a whole new Acoustic Music Workshop. Choose your weapon - guitar, banjo, ukulele.
How about a different kind of art? Try Quick Drawing or Watercolor Floral Workshop with Joan Sullivan.
Maybe you’re not the stay-at-home type. Then welcome to our travel section, with new trips to the Pacific Northwest, Southern US, or New York City... and even a first-time Travel Journaling class so you can write about it and make your friends jealous.
Prefer to travel vicariously? We actually have a new class introducing you to Netflix, explaining how you can have movies delivered to your door.
Time to be fiscally fit. We have a whole section on new investment and retirement classes. Want to be physically fit? Try our new Yoga for Runners.
What if none of these brand new classes appeal to you? Then sign up for one more new one - Creative Writing. Now you can write up your own course listings.
There. That was your day taking only some of the new classes offered through Club Ed. You still have to work through more than 100 current favorites and “back by popular demand” courses.
We really don’t mind whether you decide to take a new course or one offered before. Just don’t hesitate, or the new will be old.
See you in class.
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