"Franklin D. Roosevelt" and "New Jersey State"

The first part of the crowded meeting was dedicated to American President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, his political activity and personal life. His birthday America celebrates on the 30th of January.

The club-members were offered to watch a slide-show “FDR” and Peace Corp volunteer Avital Muth read the information allowing the members to enjoy her pronunciation.

It was useful and interesting to learn that:

•        A 1999 survey of academic historians by CSPAN found that historians consider Abraham Lincoln, George Washington, and Roosevelt the three greatest presidents by a wide margin, and other surveys are consistent.

•        Roosevelt is the sixth most admired person in the 20th century, according to Gallup.

At the second part of meeting Peace Corp volunteer Avital Muth narrated about her native state New Jersey and showed a slide show as well. It was an interesting story about the sights, economy, national Emblem, famous people of New Jersey. Avital was asked a lot of questions by the club-members. Also we watched a video “State Dance of New Jersey – Square Dance”

It was useful and interesting to learn that:

•        The properties in the United States version of the board game Monopoly are named after the streets of Atlantic City

•        The first organized baseball game was played in Hoboken, NJ in 1846.

•        2nd in blueberry production

•        New Jersey has the most dense system of highways and railroads in the U.S.

•        New Jersey has the most diners in the world and is sometimes referred to as the diner capital of the world.

•        North Jersey has the most shopping malls in one area in the world with seven major shopping malls in a 25 sq. mile radius

After a short break everybody discussed the topic of holding Euro-cap 2012 in Ukraine. The opinions were different. Ones thought that it would be a wonderful chance for Ukraine to improve its economy, build new roads, hotels, but the others supposed that it was not good, because the host-country usually spends much more money on holding an event than earns. Anyway the discussion was vivid and everybody enjoyed.

The Center was visited by 3 foreign quests from Brazil. All of them are members of AIESEC – the biggest International non-govermental organization in the world, that provides young people with opportunities to develop leadership, professional and personal traits for positive influence on the society.

The number of visitors - 35

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Not all together...30 and Yana, Boris, Anatoliy, Olesyio, Tamara were unlucky to miss the picture :-)