We have officially changed the name of the workspace formerly known as the "Biblioteca" (library) to the "Centro de Manna".
Don't worry, we still have a library, but we felt that calling our whole space the "Biblioteca" was limiting. Out of the space we rent, we run the following:
Public Lending Library
Teen Center
Art Classes for Kids
Children's English Classes
Adult's English Classes
World Studies Classes for Kids
Women's Exercise Classes
We are in the process of building a kitchen to host cooking classes, and we also hope to open up a preventative health clinic on the third floor.
We have essentially 6 different rooms on two different floors of a building from which we run most of our programs. Therefore we felt like calling the whole space a library was misleading (women got confused when I would say we had exercise on the 3rd floor of the library). So we have officially changed our name to..... (drumroll please)...... "Centro de Manna". After many discussions, we decided that "Community Center" was too presumptuous (since all of our programs are still run by gringos), and since most of the community members recognize the name Manna, "Centro de Manna" was the final outcome.
Rest easy, now that you know the new lingo. Hasta la proxima vez....
Monday, February 1, 2010
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