{"id":1979,"date":"2012-03-30T10:00:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-30T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/axebase.net\/blog\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2019-06-26T22:42:36","modified_gmt":"2019-06-26T20:42:36","slug":"english-tea-with-annie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axebase.net\/blog\/2012\/03\/30\/english-tea-with-annie\/","title":{"rendered":"English Tea with Annie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On the last Thuesday of every month the Leipzig local branch of Berlitz language schools <span id=\"result_box\" class=\"short_text\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hps\">organizes\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"hps\">an<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">event\u00a0in English language\u00a0named <a href=\"http:\/\/www.berlitz.de\/de\/leipzig\/home\/news_29596.html\">The Berlitz Lounge<\/a>. Former students, current students, or interested people could visit this events and as the main part talk in English only. One trainer (all trainers are <em>native<\/em> speakers) has the hat on ;-) and gives the topic, e.g. Bill from San Diego, California, in whale watching, Max from Wales in fashion, Megan from California in Californian candies&#8230;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"short_text\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hps\">Yesterday it was able to talk about English tea.\u00a0<\/span><\/span>Likeable Annie\u00a0<span class=\"short_text\" lang=\"en\"><span class=\"hps\">(she\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hps\">came from<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">the vicinity<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">of London and is very british) and her collegues have prepared the event with a strong =:-) black tea, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Scone_%28bread%29\">scones<\/a>, jam (this is made from red fruits, marmelade is made from citrus fruits), sandwiches, a weird smeary stuff from yeast with a taste of soup seasoning named <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marmite\">Marmite<\/a>\u00a0(isn&#8217;t my thing), and a small quiz about history of tea (easy for me, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Earl_Grey_tea\">Earl Grey<\/a> etc., but I prefer <a title=\"[wikipedia] Darjeeling tea\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Darjeeling_tea\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Darjeeling<\/a>) and etiquette while drinking tea (I&#8217;ve said it, very british).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hps\">I used this chance for a refresh in English speaking and a short reunion with Berlitz trainers. 15 interested and sometimes very different people (trainers are included;\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"hps\">some events\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"hps\">have<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"hps\">had<\/span>\u00a0<span class=\"hps\">more participants, it depends on the topic<\/span><span class=\"hps\">) were <\/span><span class=\"hps\">in a comfortable<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">round. It was two and a half (not men) hours of\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"hps\">an entertaining<\/span> <span class=\"hps\">evening. Thank you for inviting, Annie!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nUpcoming dates in 2019:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>On June 27th<\/li>\n<li>On July 25th<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Start is always at 6.30 pm, admission is free. The organizers ask for advance notification via phone 03 41 &#8211; 2 11 48 17 or email <a title=\"leipzig@berlitz.de\" href=\"mailto:leipzig@berlitz.de?subject=English%20Conversation%20Evenings%20@%20Berlitz - recommended by axebase.net\">leipzig(at)berlitz.de<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the last Thuesday of every month the Leipzig local branch of Berlitz language schools organizes\u00a0an event\u00a0in English language\u00a0named The Berlitz Lounge. Former students, current students, or interested people could visit this events and as the main part talk in English only. One trainer (all trainers are native speakers) has the hat on ;-) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-misc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axebase.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axebase.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axebase.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axebase.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axebase.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/axebase.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5097,"href":"https:\/\/axebase.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1979\/revisions\/5097"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axebase.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axebase.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axebase.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}