Great news! Our friends at Sweet Surrender coffee shop have reserved us a room for every Wednesday night. So, rather than meeting in a stuffy classroom in Novum, we will now meet there from now on.
Directions: Go to the Most Teatralny tram stop. Walk north on ul. Roosevelta in the direction AWAY from Rondo Kaponeira and stay on the left side of the street. Keep walking straight, about 100m from the corner at Most Teatralny, and look for the yellow Sweet Surrender sign. It will be at the first small street, Krasińskiego 1.
See you tomorrow at 19:00 at Sweet Surrender (NOT at Novum)!
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Thursday, April 14, 2011
Recipes
For those of you who loved the dessert sampling at Sweet Surrender, here's a few recipes for similar desserts to try at home.
Chocolate Chip Cookies: Be sure to switch to metric measurements. Also, the biggest challenge you have here is finding brown sugar. This is different from natural brown sugar/raw cane sugar. You can simply replace the brown sugar with regular white sugar, or if you want to be more exact, replace it with white sugar and a spoonful of molasses.
Blondies: Mm those delicious peanut butter chocolate bars. Most blondie recipes also call for brown sugar, but here's another that does not.
And finally, Chocolate Brownie Cake.
Enjoy! Bon Appetit! Smacznego!
Chocolate Chip Cookies: Be sure to switch to metric measurements. Also, the biggest challenge you have here is finding brown sugar. This is different from natural brown sugar/raw cane sugar. You can simply replace the brown sugar with regular white sugar, or if you want to be more exact, replace it with white sugar and a spoonful of molasses.
Blondies: Mm those delicious peanut butter chocolate bars. Most blondie recipes also call for brown sugar, but here's another that does not.
And finally, Chocolate Brownie Cake.
Enjoy! Bon Appetit! Smacznego!
Wednesday, April 13, 2011
The USA: Making fun of itself
Today we'll be talking about stereotypes in the U.S. about other parts of the U.S. Such as why people in the rest of the country love to joke that everyone in my state, New Jersey, looks/thinks/acts like these people:
I promise, we don't. Most of the Jersey Shore cast members aren't even from New Jersey!!
Anyhow, for kicks, here's a few fun links about other stereotypes:
The United States, according to the United States
An endless list of Stuff White People Like
Mapping stereotypes around the world
Cleveland humorous tourism video
And then there's the second one.
Portland: stuck in the 90s
I promise, we don't. Most of the Jersey Shore cast members aren't even from New Jersey!!
Anyhow, for kicks, here's a few fun links about other stereotypes:
The United States, according to the United States
An endless list of Stuff White People Like
Mapping stereotypes around the world
Cleveland humorous tourism video
And then there's the second one.
Portland: stuck in the 90s
Monday, April 4, 2011
Wednesday: NOT in Novum!
I won't be at our meeting on Wednesday (April 6), so we will NOT meet at Collegium Novum. Instead you'll meet (without me) at Sweet Surrender coffee shop at Most Teatralny. Here's the address and directions.
Aaron and Anna will reserve a room for us beginning at 18:30, so come whenever you can. There will be games and the opportunity to just relax and talk in English. I will try to stop by later in the evening.
Aaron and Anna will reserve a room for us beginning at 18:30, so come whenever you can. There will be games and the opportunity to just relax and talk in English. I will try to stop by later in the evening.
Dessert Sampling on Sunday
Sweet Surrender coffee shop has graciously offered to host us for an American dessert sampling this Sunday, April 10, at 15:00. They will open the shop especially for our group! The cost for this delicious event is only 5 zł per person (or 10 zł with coffee or juice).
All are welcome, but we need a headcount so that Sweet Surrender knows how much food to make. Please respond to this post or email me by Wednesday if you want to attend. See you there!
All are welcome, but we need a headcount so that Sweet Surrender knows how much food to make. Please respond to this post or email me by Wednesday if you want to attend. See you there!
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
First Annual UAM Spelling Bee
TOMORROW in Collegium Novum, 212b Bloc B at 19:00 sharp:
First Annual UAM Spelling Bee!
A spelling bee is a contest to correctly spell as many words as possible. We will follow the rules of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in the U.S. Every participant will have the opportunity to spell at least one word; however, once a participant misspells a word, he/she will be out of the running. There will be prizes!
There's even a Broadway musical about a spelling bee, let alone a number of movies.
To practice, check out the Merriam-Webster list of sample words. May the best speller win!
First Annual UAM Spelling Bee!
A spelling bee is a contest to correctly spell as many words as possible. We will follow the rules of the Scripps National Spelling Bee in the U.S. Every participant will have the opportunity to spell at least one word; however, once a participant misspells a word, he/she will be out of the running. There will be prizes!
There's even a Broadway musical about a spelling bee, let alone a number of movies.
To practice, check out the Merriam-Webster list of sample words. May the best speller win!
Green Eggs and Ham
As we read at our Dr. Seuss meeting last week, here's the text of Dr. Seuss' original Green Eggs and Ham.And here's Moxy Fruvous' modified music version:
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