Blog Post #3: Updates and Planning

What I've learned from planning our conversations ahead of time is that it doesn't really work! So far it has been really easy for all of us to keep the conversation going and talk about all sorts of things. Having questions planned ahead of time helps me stay on track when the conversation dies down, but for the most part we don't really use them. 

When I first started Chat Cafe, I thought that I would end up making all kinds of plans, games, and other ideas before each meeting. But as it turns out, none of those things are actually necessary. Since most of us are ending our weeks by Thursday evening, we end up talking about what happened the whole week: both in our lives and also current events in the news and around the world. I think we could benefit from some structure and that I may need to do a little more planning so that we have more topics to bounce off of. 

I proposed watching videos and most of them agreed that short videos would be a great idea. I'm planning to find music videos or little clips from movies that we can talk about. At this point, I have 4 regular attendees which is actually really great! I think we make a good group and that they all seem to like to learn from one another. I mentioned that we could all go to a cider mill over the weekend and they all seemed very enthusiastic about it. I think its awesome that we are all becoming friends and things are becoming less formal. 

I am looking forward to future meetings and hopefully putting some more structure/adventure into them. Some ideas for the future include: watching videos, having a potluck, going to the cider mill, going to new places around AA (possibly for dinner) and others!