Global Connections

If you want to join a great group of girls who are crafters at heart, join our knitting/craft group.  All of us are currently knitting, but if you have another craft, you could bring this too!  We meet at Beth’s house.  All are welcome!  Craft Group meets weekly on Thursdays from 10:00AM- 11:30AM. For more info, email Beth at bmannahan@woh.rr.com.

Hope to see you there!

Come join us to watch the World Cup (maybe we will see more upsets like Switzerland beating Spain).  Cru and Global connections are sponsoring 3 events this weekend providing places you can watch the world cup with friends.

Friday at 2:30  England vs. Algeria.  Host:  Kurt and Ruth 419-575-1360, kjbubalo@yahoo.com

Saturday at 2:30: Cameroon vs. Denmark.  Host: Julie George, jgeorge@globalconnections-bg.org

Sunday at 2:30: Brazil vs. Ivory Coast.  Host: Brian and Solmaz, kwfeizhouren@yahoo.com

If you want to come please RSVP to the host or whatever contact information is besides the host’s name.  They will then let you know details about the location.  Bring a snack if you like.

GC’s second field trip of the summer was this past Saturday–we visited the Meyer Family Farm just outside of Bowling Green.  After a potluck lunch together, we took a tour of the farm house that has been in the family for three generations, learned about the crops that Scott, his  Dad, and brother farm, and then we traveled to the “home Place” just around the corner to look at the machinery used to plant and harvest crops and to look at the 1000 + pigs!  It was a fun and informative afternoon!

You are invited to watch the World Cup with Global Connections and CRU.  The fun will begin on Friday (today) at 2:00 PM at Kurt and Ruth Bubalo’s home for the game between France and Uruguay, Saturday at 9:30 AM at Kurt and Ruth’s home for the game between Nigeria and Argentina and finally Sunday at 2:00 PM at Julie George’s home for the game between Germany and Australia.

Please RSVP to the host of the game at kjbubalo@yahoo.com or jgeorge@globalconnections-bg.org.  Rides will be provided so email if you need this.  Bring a snack if you’d like.  We will continue to let you know of more games for next week but feel free to email if there is a game you really want to watch!

Here are a few pictures from visits to the Meyer Family Farm.  Come join us!

Our next field trip is coming up on Saturday, June 12th, 11:00 AM – 3:00 PM–a tour of the Meyer Family Farm, one of the largest family farms in Northwest Ohio. We’ll be taking a tour of the farm, looking at the various crops that are harvested, the machinery that is used, and visiting the large hog pen. Bring a dish of food to share for our potluck lunch.  Children and families are welcomed.  Contact Julie to reserve your spot.

Last Wednesday we celebrated the last day of Community English Classes for the school year by having a picnic.  Everyone headed to The Davis’ farm where we enjoyed a beautiful summer morning on the farm.  The wooded landscape, outbuildings and pond provided  the perfect setting.  The weather cooperated holding off the clouds and rain till after our picnic!  Our potluck of international food was as filling as it was varied.

A second celebration was the senior Mr. Davis’ birthday on the following day.  A beautifully decorated birthday cake and well-wishing birthday cards were presented.  The third celebration was that three expectant mothers who had also been a part of our class received small baby gifts from class members in blessing for their soon-to-be roles as parents!

Congratulations to all graduating BGSU seniors and others from Global Connections!!!  Good luck with all your future endeavors and don’t forget your Global Connections friends back in BG!!!

If you are graduating, moving, and/or just no longer have use of your furniture or household items, please consider donating to Global Connections.  Now is a perfect time to give your gently used items for a worthy cause.  These items will be used to give to incoming students and internationals who have need of them. If you have items that are clean and in good working order consider giving them to an incoming international.  Please email Beth at bmannahan@woh.rr.com for more information.

Participants of  Global Connections Friendship Friday on April 16 made  ’market tote bags’!  We did our part to recycle the earth’s resources by sewing cloth bags to use as we shop in place of the plastic bags given by stores.  Gifted sewer and teacher, Joan Edwards coached us through choosing fabric, cutting, sewing and finally folding compactly to a size that easily fits in purse or car door.  As always, we also had a wonderful potluck lunch where we enjoyed the cooking from Viet Nam, Russia, Uzbekistan, China, Chad, and of course, America!!!