While Brian was running over hill and dale Saturday morning at Platte River State Park, I was participating in my second library practicum experience with Lincoln City Libraries. Each month, a bilingual storytime and crafts event is held for Spanish-speaking children and their families at the South Street Branch. My high-school Spanish is pretty rusty, so thank goodness there are some terrific volunteers who help out with translation and reading in Spanish. Making bunny handpuppets and flowers from pipe cleaners, coffee filters, and colors needs no translation! A yummy healthy lunch was hosted by Open Harvest. It's really neat to see the whole family - moms, dads, and siblings - involved. One family signed up for their first library card, and it was a joy to see how excited the kiddos were to chose books and videos to take home. I'm really enjoying my first foray into observing and participating in Youth Services. Quite different from my day job in academic libraries.Saturday evening, we watched a little Final Four action at John & Janelle's and supervised a little Furious Five action: Evan, Nolan R., Lewis, Ian, and Nolan H. burned off some energy outside. After watching Memphis conquer UCLA, we caught a performance by Son del Llano at Meadowlark Coffee. Brian had seen the group at the Zoo Bar and raved about them. It was nice to see and hear live music in a setting like this, open to all ages, and both the very young and more mature folks were getting into the Latin groove and dancing.
