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SEPTEMBER 2008 Dear CIWC Members, It
gives the CIWC Committee great pleasure to welcome all newcomers and all returning women to the Chengdu International Women's
Club. We have many new members on the CIWC Committee with fresh new ideas, so we hope to be very creative in our activity
planning this season. The CIWC Committee has always prided itself on listening to our members and implementing new activities
for every member's interests. If you have new ideas for activities, please let us know so that we can organise them for
the group. Our international community has grown by leaps and bounds this past year. We now have over 250 members subscribed to our group. Although we have met quite a few of the new faces around Chengdu, we look forward to meeting many more of you at our events this month! We have attached the Welcome and New Member Questionnaire to give you a brief overview of what CIWC has to offer along with our Questionnaire. If you haven't filled this out before, please fill out the Questionnaire and return it to chengduiwc@gmail.com. We have a variety of events in store for you in September, and in the upcoming months, details of which are below. Sincerely, CIWC Committee ---------------- ANNOUNCEMENTS --------------------------- As the new editor of the newsletter I thought I would add something new – a recommendation of a place to visit in Chengdu. My main reason for this is I will now have to find someplace new in Chengdu every month (suggestions welcome), instead of always doing the same old same old, so here goes – this month I recommend going to East Lake Park (Dong Hu Gong Yuan 东湖公园). This is on the second ring road to the south east of the city (ErHuanLu DongSiDuan 二环路东四段). As the name would suggest it has a BIG lake that you can stroll around, and when we went there were lots of birds, including swans and egrets (I think). It also has lots of grass, tennis courts, a tea house, a fish pond absolutely FULL of gold fish that you can feed with a 2元 bag of fish food, and a kid's amusement park including a soft play area and other rides and games. Entry to the park and parking is free. Enjoy ☺ On the Look-Out for Website
Editor(s) On the Look-Out
for Huanying (Welcome) Assistants Cooking Demo We are currently looking for people to host the Monthly
Cooking Demos. In the past we have had Indian, Italian, French and Irish Cooking Demos and we are looking
forward to adding a new variety of demos this year. When you host a cooking demo you will
be teaching everyone how to make approximately 3 dishes (starter/side dish, main dish and dessert) as well as providing
the ingredients and recipes for your students to take home. You can host this in your own kitchen or feel free
to use mine. If you are interested in hosting a cooking demo this year, please email Kim Dallas. Crafters Group In the past we held
a monthly crafters group. There were a wide variety of crafts at the group such as quilters, sewers, knitters, crochetters,
scrapbookers and painters. Our gracious hostess has left Chengdu, so we are currently looking for new hostesses. If you
are interested in hosting this group or just being part of it, please email chengduiwc@gmail.com. CIWC Christmas Bazaar Dear CIWC members, Welcome back to Chengdu, or welcome to Chengdu! CIWC Bazaar Committee would like to encourage you to get involved in the one and only charity event that CIWC sponsors during the year. Help us give back to the community in which we live! CIWC Bazaar Committee has decided that all of the funds raised by the CIWC in 2008 through the Bazaar, cookbook and calendar sales will go to the earthquake relief and rebuilding effort. Although this was in the news and got lots of attention in May, the need for money and supplies will continue for a long time, and we hope to continue our assistance. The CIWC Bazaar Committee has been organizing since May! The Co-Chairs are Karin Noll and Cyndi Pill. They will be coordinating the event and should you have any questions, please contact them. The other committee members are: Entertainment: Bushra Sadiq Food: Sarah Schiller and Traci Perdue Local Crafts: Karin Noll Table Sales: Benedicte Bellier Volunteers: Minu Rastogi Charity Coordinator: Catherine Platt Publicity: Katie Lohman Children's Games: Sarah Moore Sponsors for the event: Cyndi Pill, Kim Dallas and Fang Bjorn CIWC members, if you think your company might be willing to donate funds and be listed as a sponsor for the 2008 CIWC Christmas Bazaar, please contact Cyndi. We have letters explaining our event and what the money is going to be used for and we can provide fapiao. Our goal this year is 100,000 RMB! Please help us reach this goal either through individual donations or through your company! The success of our event depends on volunteers. We need about 100 volunteers to sell calendars, baked goods, run the children's games, sell tickets, monitor the silent auction, etc. If you know you will be here and want to volunteer your time right now, please contact Minu. If you have something to sell and would like a table, contact Benedicte. We are going to have a wonderful event again this year and look forward to having lots of support from CIWC! Karin Noll --------------- EVENTS --------------------------------------- Doctors Meet & Greet session, Monday, 1 September Monday September 1 at 7 pm at the Bookworm Dr. Mattaus (Worldlink Clinic) and Dr. Tassa (Global Doctor) will be present for us to ask questions in person. This is a great opportunity for you to meet the local Western doctors and formulate procedures before accidents happen. September Coffee Morning, Tuesday, 2 September Please join us for the first coffee morning of the new season! Please come along and hear about the activities for the new year. Maxxelli Real Estate will be on hand to answer questions about Chengdu and we will be handing out donated taxi books from Taxi Book. We will be meeting at The Bookworm on Tuesday, September 2nd at 10 am and coffee is on us! We are looking forward to seeing some new faces along with our familiar ones too! Market Trip, Tuesday, 9 September This month we'll be taking a trip to the downtown fresh vegetable and seafood market on Qing Shi Qiao. There are also canned goods and other imported items to browse through. We'll be going on Tuesday 9 September, meeting at the Bookworm at 930am to carpool. Please RSVP to I-Leen. Book Group, Friday, 12 September September Book: The Pillars of the Earth Hostess: Karin Noll Discussion Leader: Kim Dallas Date: FRIDAY September 12 (This month only it is not the 2nd Thursday) The Book Group meets the second Thursday of each month at a member's house. A reminder is sent out to each member the week before the meeting. The group supports the hostess by bringing a snack, bottle of wine, soda or something else to share. A group member also volunteers to be the discussion leader. The discussion leader will find some information on the author, read a review or two and maybe provide a few specific points to begin our talk. Just enough to get us started. We hope you will consider joining our group if you are a reader! Send me an email and I will send you the schedule for the year and get you on our mailing list. Karin Noll Monthly Luncheon, Wednesday, 17 September CIWC holds a monthly luncheon at a member's home on the third Wednesday of every month. Everyone who attends brings a dish to share and it's a great chance to catch up with old friends and meet some new faces. If you would like to volunteer to host a future luncheon please email Cyndi. The September luncheon will be held on Wednesday September 17 at Cyndi Pill's house at noon. Please RSVP to Cyndi. Hope to see you there! Couples Night Out, Friday, 19 September Manicure and Pedicure Party, Saturday, 20 September Saturday September 20 at 2 pm, Lizi's Professional Nail Salon (next to Lily's Shadow Restaurant), Tong Zi Lin Lu This is a great way to relax and rejuvenate with friends so come and spend some "time out" with other ladies. Manicure 45 RMB Pedicure 70 RMB (not including massage). RSVP to I-Leen ----------------- REGULAR ACTIVITIES ---------------------- CIWC Play Group Mah Jiang Fridays, 5 and 19 September Now that you live in Chengdu the best way to get acclimatised is to try your hand at things that the locals enjoy, such as spending the afternoon in teahouses, eating strange parts of animals cooked in chilli soup, walking backwards for exercise or going to the market in your pyjamas (only kidding about that last one!). If you don't fancy any of those, you could try the (slightly) more sedate pastime of Mah Jong. Anybody who is interested is welcome to join us in the Bookworm on Friday 5th and 19th of September at 1pm, hopefully we will get enough people coming to make this a regular event – and those of you who work, don't worry, we hope to hold a Mah Jiang evening every other week once we are up and running. Tennis Club Badminton Club Anyone interested in badminton is invited to join this new group. They will be meeting once or twice a week at 9am to get in shape, socialize and have fun. Contact I-Leen if interested. Latin Dancing Thursdays at Carol's Too at 7:30 p.m. there will be Latin Dance lessons including salsa, merengue, bachata and cumbia. There is a free lesson followed by dancing until late. This is open to the public. ----------------------------------------------------------------- CIWC Taxi Cards We still have several books of Taxi Cards available for purchase. We have lowered our price of the books from 50 rmb to 25 rmb. Proceeds from the sale of taxi cards help support CIWC's philanthropic efforts and operating costs. We appreciate our members' support... thank you! CIWC Cookbooks We have several cookbooks left from last year's Christmas Bazaar. The price per cookbook is 120 rmb. They make really great gifts and it contains recipes from all around the world. Proceeds from the sale of taxi cards help support CIWC's philanthropic efforts and operating costs. If you are interested in purchasing one of these cookbooks please email us at chengduiwc@gmail.com. Thank you!
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