SilberCafe -What's New?

Today, we were surprised by a lady who used to come here over a year ago! Ok, actually, I wasn't, because she had called beforehand, so I knew she was going to pay us a visit in the near future. Her "stage name" (her first one, as last time she chatted here with us, the "stage name system" hadn't been implemented yet!), was Isabelle, from France! Bonjour!
She was joined by Jamie from Spain, Briana & Kiara from Ireland, and Brittney from England.

Today, I was trying hard to keep the topics relax...
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We had the perfect balance of "Man & Woman" today - Edward from England and Emma from Germany contributed to
today's "crowd" (well......).
We talked about a lot, all mixed up, so it's hard to remember and to get it organized....Japanese politics (again!), earthquake in Haiti, and subsequently Kobe earthquake, it's anniversary coming up soon. I can't believe that 15 years have passed already. Time REALLY flies!



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Brrrrr.......freeeeeezing!!
Hello, there - today, we had the "usual" Thursday crowd, minus a few. Was is too cold to move?
For some reason, Hannah, Isabelle, Monica, Briana & me talked about really heavy stuff today:
Politics (and all its' unfairness & corruption) !!
When trying to change our topics to something "lighter", somehow we couldn't manage, and ended up
discussing the way times are changing, and modern technology is making us more and more lazy, and 
maybe fatter (because of the fact we s...
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Abigail & Alicia came the first time today in 2010 - welcome "back"! Alexandria joined them, and today again, we talked mostly about how the past holidays were spent. Alicia visited Okinawa - it was her second time, she went alone, and she really enjoyed going about at her own pace, "feeling" Okinawa's history & it's rich nature.
Abigail spent precious time with her family, taking them for a trip to Okayama, and doing all the Japanese new year "things". Alexandria was more on the "listening en...
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Briana from Ireland (that's a region in Kasai!) visited the Cafe after quite a while, together with Catherine, Kiara, David, Cassandra, and Chelsea.As you can see, it was a busy Saturday afternoon.....David was really full after a heavy Udon lunch, but, after carefully "checking", I realized that nobody had touched their cakes until the very end of the Cafe, although it was really tasty looking like this:



As all of today's members came here for the first time in the new year, we mainly chatted...
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The second Cafe for the day brought in Madison, Mikayla, Angela, and Cassandra, and we again talked about everyone's 
New Year's Holidays - pretty much "normal", everybody! Visiting family (or being visited BY family, the more exhausting option!), going to "hatsumode", hot springs etc....
Besides that, we talked about the fact that it seems that movies being showed at theatres are getting more and more 3D, so all the people in the audience have to wear funny glasses! Just imagine!! Connecting t...
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Helloooooo~
Happy New Year of the Tiger! 
Today, I expected either a very busy Cafe (because of all the ladies who had to wait sooo long to come here), OR, a very quiet Cafe (because everybody needed to take a break from the "hyper time" with children & grandchildren)......
The second version became reality - Jamie from Spain, and Chelsea from England joined today to chat about how they spent the holidays, and to learn a little about the "Tiger", according to the Chinese Zodiac:



By the way, THIS ...
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Welcome to the last Blog-Posting for the year 2009!  
I would like to take this opportunity to thank all of you loyal, eager, and cheerful group of "young girls & boys"  for your 
patronage throughout the year & of course beyond! Without you, it wouldn't be possible to create
this nice, cozy, and warm atmosphere. Thank you very much!

To round up the year, Brittney, Kelly and  Mike showed up, and you won't believe what our main subject for the day was! 
CARS! Yes, we mainly talked about the four-wh...
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Thanks for coming yesterday, and sorry that I had to rush off - Christmas vespers (in German) at the Kobe Union Church located in Rokko started a 16:00. No, I am not a dedicated christian, but for this special day I like to go to church to catch some christmas atmosphere, unfortunately very limited in Japan. And I took the Hanshin Kosoku all the way to Maya. Up to Yanagihara I was perfectly in time, but then, the highway showed its' "true face" - yes, a traffic jam with no end in sight!
Luckil...
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