SilberCafe -What's New?

Is it Tuesday today? Eh.....no.....is it Thursday today? I don't think so - No, it's Saturday, but it felt like one of the other days! 6 people (in words: Six) showed up today to enjoy our little Halloween Party! Just kidding, there was no party, but as today's Cafe fell exactly on THAT day, I did prepare a little to create some "Halloween Mood", so to speak:



Can you tell that the pumpkin cake has the Jack-O-Lantern face? Of course you can!!

Today, I tried to give Gracie, Courtney, Ian (a man!)...
Continue reading...

We had, I should say, a very comfortable number of "students" today: Alicia, Brittney, Abigail, Isabella & Emma.

Today's main, "hot" topic was MJ! Michael Jackson! Why again? Because the limited-time (two weeks only) showing of the documentary movie has just started, and Emma already went to see it! She was moved, so she says. So if you like (or love?) MJ, maybe you should go and see the picture. Abigail & Brittney (or was it Alicia?) are going to see it tomorrow.
The interesting thing about th...
Continue reading...

And I tell you - it's a small world! Today, Olivia, Katie, Miranda, Alicia & Shannon came to our little Cafe.
Olivia is like the "regular" of "regulars" (some people even call her the "boss"), she saw Miranda, Miranda saw her and -
they knew each other! This IS a coinicidence, because Miranda came to the Cafe for the very first time today! 
Hello, welcome! I hope you will have a good time with our "herd"! 

And (amazing story, part II), I went to Miki Shirin Koen last Sunday for BBQ. Four families...
Continue reading...

The Cafe has just finished - and I'm already "blogging"!
You know why? Because the washing up went quickly, only three cups & three plates today:
Sabrina, Hannah, and.....and.......and.....YES, a new MAN came today, welcome, Gary!
Gary has actually been my German student for the last two years, but recently he realized that English is very
important, and (sadly) more useful than German. so he decided to give the Cafe a try! 

Today we mainly talked about "weird American news" - first, the "balloon ...
Continue reading...

What a crowd today! Wow! Thanks for coming Brittney,Lindsey, Gracie, Katie (all from England!), Kelsey from Scandinavia,
Kelly from Ireland, and Hannah from Germany! Almost "Full-House" today.

Today we talked a little about the movie "ES", which I had lent to Kelly. I was really curious to get her opinion on the movie....
now Hannah has it! let's see what she has to say about it later.

But today's main topic was (or rather should have been) this one:



As many of you are "world-travellers", I though...
Continue reading...

It's Tuesday today, right? It seems that I couldn't see the "BOSS"!!
Hey, where were you? 
Well, you've missed this top-class choco & coffee cake:



It was soooo delicious! 
 Right, Brooklyn, Olivia & Mariah? Oh, maybe Mariah took hers home.....so, how was it?
Please let me know next time.

Today, almost the entire time of the Cafe we talked about movies (Mariah, the "Pro" was here!). Good movies, bad movies, cheap movies, funny movies, dull movies, total time-waster movies, movies which make you thin...
Continue reading...

Another quiet Saturday with Abigail & Olivia!
Our main topic today was the "the spice of life", or at least of them - BEER!
Recently I had the chance to enjoy a bottle of Budweis Beer from the Czech Republic  (NO, not the water-taste American copy!), and a bottle of Austrian Kaiser Beer. And I must tell you: I had forgotten how good European beer tastes!
What can I do? 
By the way: Did you know that most Japanese beer contains corn starch and rice? 

Today we've learned:

 

So, I guess if you have too...
Continue reading...

Two big surprises today: "Monica" is back, after about six month! Of course you don't know who Monica is......I give you a little hint: One half of a set of two, always drinking hot coffee!
Surprise no. 2: Today's main topic: GOYA! Yes, that strangely bitter tasting vegetable we usually associate with Okinawa, NOT with  Akashi! Amazing, three ladies, Breanna (our "young girl"), Alicia (our "farmer"), and Monica were able to talk for about one hour mainly about goya, and a lot of other vergetab...
Continue reading...

Hey - almost "full house" today: 
Sabrina, Amy, Samantha, Angela, Courtney, Alexandria and me were able to welcome yet another "new face", Elisabeth, to our little Cafe! Thank you all for coming! I hope you had a good time today, and that you will come back soon, Elisabeth!

As it usually happens when we welcome a new member, today, too, many questions were going towards Elisabeth. As it turns out, she spent some time working on a farm in New Zealand. From there, our conversation took us to Aust...
Continue reading...