SilberCafe -What's New?

Hi, young people!
Yes, because today, 50% of our eager ladies were "under 30" - Kelly from Ireland, and Mya from Italy caused this unusual phenomenon. So today, these two girls and our Saturday regular, Elisabeth, were able to welcome yet another newcomer, Heather from England. Hi, Heather, don't be shy - I wish you a good time with the regular "herd"!

We talked about everybody's Golden Week activities - some went to libraries (to become even smarter?), another one was obeying to her dog's need...
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Ok, trying to get the life back to normal after enjoying a sunny, Golden Week! On Sunday I had my little concert at the
"親父バンド祭り" in Kakogawa, and I'd like to thank all the loyal members who showed up for doing so. I hope you had a good time. On Monday I enjoyed a nice B-B-Q at home with my best friend, Ken, who I hadn't seen for over three years. How surprised I was when he said "初めまして" to my daughter (who'll be 4 in December!). But I guess it just shows that true frie...
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It was a good start into the beautiful month of May, especially as we could today welcome another "newbie", the type which really lowers our average age significantly - Briana is "below" 30 - enough said! 
A warm welcome to you from the Saturday bunch, the others, and of course, me! I hope you'll have a great time with the veterans! 
As usually, a "new face" means bombarding with questions by the "oldies", and Shelby, Cassandra and Alexandria didn't hesitate at all to follow the tradition! 
Afte...
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Hi crowd - thanks for coming on this happy (?) day for me, my "anniversary"!
Elisabeth spoiled me with some rare foreign beer (for tonight, obviously!), Emma brought some eatable souvenir from Taiwan (she received from someone, she didn't go there), Angela treated us with a (she said 'easy') riddle, which I couldn't solve, due to not knowing the "other" meaning of fish: 

Please spend some sleepless nights on this one - if you require help, don't hesitate to ask! 

 Gracie & Ja...
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For all you music lovers - on May 2nd, Sunday, there will be an event called 親父バンド祭り, held at 
加古川非岡山公園. For people who are not too familiar with Kanji (Me!!), the place is called Hiokayama Koen in Kakogawa.
The concert starts at about 11 am, and closes around 5 pm. As 8 or 9 bands are going to play, the time will most probably shift little by little towards the evening. As this event is taking place in a park ,outdoors, why don't you bring a Bento and check it out...
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Hi!
Today was S.Q.S (not S.O.S) - Super - Quiet - Saturday! Of course, I just made this up! 
Loyal Miya from Italy joined today. She had a very heart-warming story about a Slovakian couple who got stuck in Taiwan because of the volcanic eruption: Apparently they were planning to get married on the 24th of April (which would be today), but as they obviously couldn't get back on time, a hotel owner threw them a wedding party at his hotel, inviting strangers (probably other stuck people). The coup...
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One Saturday AY explained to the group about a unique festival in her hometown, Kasai. As it sounded kind of funny (men wearing Kimono in combination with "normal" shoes) I asked her if she could show us some pictures. And so she did, or rather, she is going to, as I'm going to share them with you now. Apparently, the festival is something like a "opposite Harem", if you know what I mean! One Goddess being surrounded by a whole bunch of men! First I planned to choose only one or two "funny" p...
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Today, please enjoy 32's final (and best?) section of her report on India:

“My precious memory”

 I visited two Indian houses. One of them was in the slum. I happened to go there after my friend saw her home doctor who was like Akahige-Sensei in India (He looks after poor people and his fee is Rs.20 as the minimum.) From his very small clinic, we walked through the slum for about 15 minutes. The road was dusty and bad. And there were so many small huts on both sides of the street. Their hou...

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On this lousy-weather-Thursday 6+me tried to "conquer" part two in the series "Pet Peeves" - see what annoys you!:



We had a really, fun & heated-up discussion about all these examples above (there are, of course, LOT'S MORE!), some of us could reflect their daily lives, maybe me the most (because I'm married, right?)!
Today it felt like Emma (and a little bit her husband) could be my wife - visitors today understand what I mean!

Before the "peeves", our main topics today were.......................
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