I report from the first working day. The language café (Café des Langues) was a hilarious event, there is no doubt about it, but it would not be Luxembourg so that something would not happen along the way.
Of course, I couldn't resist the offer to see a popular event organized by our association. The plan sounded clear, before five on a train in the center. A colleague will find me and we will go together. Hey! A colleague went to the center with this intention, but her bus was (as always) delayed. The idea of going somewhere north unaccompanied scared me, but nothing happens, it just so happens that the other colleague also goes from the center, and not from the other side, as was originally planned. All right, rescue.
So we go, we change, we are approaching, but the traffic jam is such that we drive for half an hour for an hour. Our time reserve is dangerously thinner.
Hooray, we're in place, yes, somewhere, somewhere between Putscheid and Weiler, and by the way, if you ever feel like you're at the end of the world in the Czech Republic, you haven't seen anything yet. So we look around, and then I ask if we're leaving, because we're almost too late. To my surprise, my colleague didn't even know where to go. What an unpleasant presentation of our association, when two participants join us, and we don't know how to bring them to the place. Not that we wouldn't call a colleague for advice, ask passers-by, or try GPS. Not very valid, when someone writes Putscheid / Weiler on a leaflet, and you find that one city is to the right, the other to the left, and both have a place called "salle des fêtes", the fun ends.
So what do you think, we got to the venue? Eventually we were all picked up and brought to the place, glory! And our late colleague mysteriously arrived before we did.
But the important thing is that the event started (with a minimum of delay), that maybe 10 different nationalities met and spoke 3 different languages, unofficially several others. People socialized, conversed, and improved their language skills; so do I.
