It may have been the only Wellesley club event that ever took place on a New Zealand sheep farm. Thanks to Zoom and Airbnb Experiences, about 75 people from the Wellesley Club of Silicon Valley (and beyond) “wandered” the farm, watching lambs being fed from bottles. While the farm owner plied them with trivia about New Zealand, she demonstrated wool spinning.

“我强烈推荐Airbnb体验作为资源，”Club的编程COM-VP，Denise Lee'83说。“他们有很多不同类型的经历，从烹饪到动物的庇护所访问。”

In this era when meeting in person isn’t possible, Wellesley groups have been using Zoom in all kinds of ways to strengthen their connections. Here’s a sampling:

出去玩。Last March, the class of ’88 started informal evening Zoom conversations that they thought might last a week or two. In early 2021, they were still going strong—with online yoga classes, gardening tips, tours of their homes, “no shame” classes on financial management, and much more. Mostly, though, the weekly sessions are just a time to hang out and enjoy the support of each other’s company.

Re-Zoom-ion.当reunion '20被取消时，'65的班级在线搬迁了其喜爱的传统周六早上课程讨论。他们在三个主题中的一个突破房间做了两个40分钟的同学：“我们学到了什么，丢失或在Covid-19大流行期间获得了什么？”;“我今天的生活以及我在未来五年内希望的事情”;并“走向社会正义”。

Socially Distant Mint.The Washington Wellesley Club and Victoria Lai ’01, owner of Ice Cream Jubilee in Washington, D.C., hosted nearly 300 alumnae for a lesson on how to make Wellesley’s famous Peppermint Stick Pie. At the end, Alice Kunce ’05 noted that her kitchen had candy-cane dust and drips of condensed milk everywhere, and Casey Witman Sankey ’98 commented, “This is the best Zoom I have ever been on in my entire life.”