From the Promenade

Terry, Sue, Danny, Khalid, Shirley, and I made the drive over to Greensboro yesterday for the French Fair, Parisian Promenade, festival. With temperatures in the 90s and good crowds, it was a warm but pleasant experience. We really enjoyed exposing the kids and adults to our game. We were instructing people from 3 to 92 (literally!) years old on the basics of petanque and encouraging them to explore CarolinaPetanque, Petanque America, and FPUSA websites. It would be great if we got a few new players from the hands-on instruction and hand-out of literature.

The crowds seemed to be very appreciative of the play of our club members (Khalid put on a dazzling demonstration of precision shooting!), and we had several good games by pairing a novice player with a club player to form a team. Many of the novice players did very well indeed.

If there should happen to be anyone in the Greensboro area reading this posting who would be interested in playing at Bicentennial Gardens (on Hobbs street) in the near future, drop us an e-mail at carolinapetanque@yahoo.com . Shirley and I are more than willing to travel in order to play and/or instruct the game of petanque. This is also true if any of you Carolina French teachers out there would be interested in a demonstration for your classes. Or if any of you with ties to a group home or senior center would be interested?