Having some fun during COVID-19 winter season
The state of emergency continued on in Kanto area, Japan. I carried on with my job hunt since I left the travel company in September 2019, due to the outbreak of COVID-19.
The winter in Japan is quite cold and gloomy. Since the outbreak of COVID, I reckon many people missed chance to re-unite with their friends and family and longed for the reconnection with them and have some fun together.
During a quite frustrating day sending out my resumes to companies, an idea hit me. To organize a book club online. I did this during Christmas period, and many people joined. It was fun to connect with people who only meet on social media, but they posted many photographs of the books they have read.
I took the opportunity to organize a reading event, this time the theme was Valentine’s day. I was thinking of reading books of love – whether it is romantic love or love of family, or unconditional towards things you love.
Some people showed interest. However, one thing that I found was that there are not many books in Japanese on Valentine’s day. I went to my local library, and found that the most of the books themed on Valentine’s day were children’s books. I took few books which titled “Valentine”. Here are some.
Chocolate revolution by Machi Tawara
All for love by Tasha Tudor
The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks
People who joined the reading club were quite avid readers, read books together with their children. Once again, many people posted the photographs of books they read, talked about the stories and gave opinion of the book cover design.
It was a four weeks event ending on Valentine’s day. I hope people had some fun browsing through their bookshelves and picked up something they normally don’t read. It was better than doing nothing during dark day during the winter. We needed have some fun, whether you don’t meet the participants physically. We can all get connected whether you are in a various corners of world.
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