TODAY'S MEETING ON WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 30th. !!!

Please bring a pencil  ( or pen)  Thanks.

Meeting for Wednesday Decembrer 23rd

MIÉRCOLES 23 de DICIEMBRE, a las 19:45, en Cabildo 849 y Fco. Lacroze, Café Havanna.
Aviso importante: En lo que resta de diciembre y durante los meses de verano al menos Meet & Chat pasa a los días miércoles en el mismo horario.
Important notice: The last meeting in December and through, at least, January and February Meet & Chat goes on Wednesdays at he same time.

PLEASE BE ON TIME! You may come earlier WE BEGIN 8pm sharp! Thank you!

After the introduction, if the number of people present is 8 or more we will divide in groups to better hear each other.

Suggested Topic:

The year's balance for you, for the country, for the world and what to expect in 2010, a few short thoughts.

Hello and Welcome to Meet & Chat!!

As published by the Buenos Aires Herald

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Meetings for English conversation!

This and every Wednesday at  7.45 p.m.!

Bring a friend along!

Welcome newcomers and expats !! 
Looking forward to have you with us !!         Don't  miss out !!!

  "Meet & Chat" 

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We meet every Wednesday at 7:45pm at "Havanna" Coffee Shop, Av. Cabildo 849, between F. Lacroze and Teodoro García, (Line D, Subway (Subte) "Olleros" Station), to chat in English  while at the same time enjoy something from the café in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere without rigid or set topics.

In these encounters people have the chance to chat and make friends while making a practice of the language in comfortable surroundings where experiences and ideas can be shared freely.

Every meeting becomes an opportunity to enjoy a social event that's is both fun and useful to practice languages and meet people face to face. 

In sum a  "coffee chat" as may take place in any cosmopolitan city in the world.

These are not meant to be classes. The capability of communicating or expressing oneself in the language is enough to participate .

Topics are open and uncensored.

Minimum duration: 1 hour. 

To participate a nominal contribution of  $ 5.00 is required  for expenses, plus  your order at the café.

No need for previous confirmation!

Information:

meetandchat@gmail.com

Thank you and we will be seeing you!!!!

Political-Economical Quiz

¿How to complete the questionnaire?

There are two groups of statements, the first about individual liberties and the second about economic liberties.

In each statement you will answer if you agree or do not agree. The center option is for more or less, not conclusively agree or disagree.

Once finished return the questionnaire for processing

Political orientation Test:

Individual Liberties	+	+o-	-
Any individual should have the liberty to create and set up any means o communication, like radio or television, without any limitation by the government regarding content, hours of transmission or languages.
Adult citizens will decide their names and surnames as those of their children. They, upon reaching adulthood or maturity will in turn be free to decide by themselves.
Whatever takes place between consenting adults, in a private context, concerns only to them.
Adults should decide if they do or do not use the safety belt in their cars.
Couples will decide and by mutual agreement the form of union they desire (civil marriage, religious, contract between parties, etc.).
Nobody can be forced or induced to do or perform any particular activity or career. Compulsive army service o draft is therefore a form of slavery and should not be reinstated.
The prohibition of narcotic or illusionary drugs is an inherence on rights of individual. Persons of adult legal age should be free to consume whatever they desire.
Nobody should interfere with the free circulation of people. No individual will be impeded by others or the government in his free circulation of roads and streets and any other means of travel without due cause or emergency.
It is in the power of parents, and only them, the choosing of the type of education that their children will receive.
No censorship will exist for lectures, film and arts, or information to which adults can access, Adults should discriminate according to their own moral criteria the type of information that is right or convenient to them, and that which is not.
Economic Freedom	+	+o-	-
Charity is an exclusively voluntary act. A person should be able to freely decide whether to make a donation or not and to what destiny it should reach.
Public institutions, being governed by the principle of equality before the law will not economically or in any way subsidize or favor specific sectors without any consideration whatsoever to their nature or possible justification.
Work is a private and individual activity. The moment, the place and the conditions are matters that must be decided by the worker and the patron without anybody’s or government interference. Nobody can overrule a work contract signed by two adult persons in an act that is free and voluntary.
The price of any product, real state work or service should depend only on the agreement between the parties affected by the transaction. No organism, government or organization of any kind can lower or raise the agreed price by the contracting parties nor annul the operation.
Economic activity, being the monetary transactions whether it be for profit, loss, donation or maintenance, cannot be subjected under any argument to the tutorship, protection or help of the State or government. The only limitation to earn money or make a living is that it must be done legitimately.
People have the right to purchase whatever goods and services they desire.
The construction , demolition or modification of any real estate is sole and exclusive competence of its proprietor. The only limitation being security or urban codes defined technically and not politically.
No means of communication, however independent it’s contents are, should receive public funds.
All foreign commerce barriers should be eliminated.
A citizen or person in capacity has the right, to decide in life or for after death that his belongings should go to a loving person, family, public or private institution or whoever he pleases.

 This is a Meet & Chat translation. Please  return for processing This is a Meet & Chat translation. Please return for processing or go to: http://www.encuestaonline.tk/
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This test is based on the: World's Smallest Political Quiz

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Topics for Dec 10th------ Meeting days on Dec and Jan.

>>> What are we planning for vacation time?

>>>Are you afraid to come to Meet & Chat or other places because you don't feel safe in the city?

>>>Are you worried about global warming, pollution, population growth?

>>>Which is the most threatening or is it just more doomsday talk or media exaggeration?

Notices:

--Meet & Chat will be held on Wednesday December 23rd and 30th.

--During the summer the meeting day will be Wednesday, until new notice.

--News update from Paul Lim, the lone sailor.

He sends greetings and says that he is soon to cast off from Puerto Montt, Chile, to high seas due south and around Cape Horn to South Georgia Islands.

We wish him good ventures and good winds!!

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

JUEVES 10 de DICIEMBRE, a las 19:45, en Cabildo 849 y Fco. Lacroze, Café Havanna

THURSDAY, DECEMBER  10th, at 7:45 pm, Av. Cabildo 849 and Fco. Lacroze, Havanna Cafè.

PLEASE BE ON TIME! WE BEGIN 8pm sharp! Thanks!

After the introduction, if the number of people present is 8 or more we will divide in groups of 4 to better listen and hear each other.

This is Meet & Chat's new blog spot where you will find notices, and readings.
You can post your  comments.

The blog is open but it is yet undesigned. It will remain open for a few weeks but it is recommended that you register with a google (gmail) or yahoo account where it says: "Join this site", You can also become a follower to keep up to date.
In a few weeks we will not send out mails to you so all news modifications and updates can be read at the blog.
Please consider the relevancy and interest of what you post before doing so. Before approving the entries all has to be read. Thank you all. 

Hello! and welcome to Meet & Chat !!

As published in the Buenos Aires Herald

Leave your keyboard now!!!!

Come to "chat" in person!


Meetings for English conversation!

Looking forward to have you with us !!         Don't  miss out !!!

This and every Thursday at  7.45 p.m.!

Bring a friend along!

Welcome newcomers and expats !!

"Meet & Chat"

e n c u e n t r o    d e     i d i o m a s

We meet every Thursday at 7:45pm at "Havanna" Coffee Shop, Av. Cabildo 849, between F. Lacroze and Teodoro García, (Line D, Subway (Subte) "Olleros" Station), to chat in English  while at the same time enjoy something from the café in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere without rigid or set topics.

In these encounters people have the chance to chat and make friends while making a practice of the language in comfortable surroundings where experiences and ideas can be shared freely.

Every meeting becomes an opportunity to enjoy a social event that's is both fun and useful to practice languages and meet people face to face.

In sum a  "coffee chat" as may take place in any cosmopolitan city in the world.

These are not meant to be classes. The capability of communicating or expressing oneself in the language is enough to participate . 

Topics are open and uncensored.

Minimum duration: 1 hour. 

To participate a nominal contribution of  $ 5.00 is required  for expenses, plus  your order at the café.

No need for previous confirmation!

 Information:

meetandchat@gmail.com

 Thank you and we will be seeing you!!!!

Meeting for Thursday, Nov. 19th 2009

 This Thursday Horacio T will bring a short excerpt part of Act I Scene 3 of Hamlet to read and discuss. It is not difficult and there will be copies.

See the the link for a general comment on Hamlet. You may find more information in google.

http://hudsonshakespeare.org/Shakespeare%20Library/Character%20Directory/CD_Hamlet.htm

THIS ABOVE ALL

(from HAMLET,  ADVICE  FROM POLONIUS TO HIS SON LAERTES )

 

And these few precepts in thy memory

See thou character. Give thy thoughts no tongue,

Nor any unproportioned thought his act.

Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar

Those friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,

Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel,

But do not dull thy palm with entertainment

Of each new-hatched unfledged comrade. Beware

Of entrance to a quarrel; but being in

Bear’t, that the opposed may beware of thee,

Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice;

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,

For the apparel oft proclaims the man;

And they in France of the best rank and station

Are of a most select and generous chief in that.

Neither a borrower nor a lender be

For loan oft loses both itself and friend

And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry,

This above all, to thine own self be true,

And it must follow, as the night the day,

Thou canst not then be false to any man

Museum's Night

Topic for Nov. 12th.

Please read this comment :
http://edinburghexchanges.wordpress.com/2009/11/11/when-in-rome/

by a visitor from Britain staying in Buenos Aires in relation to our topic for Thus. Nov. 12.

Thanks!   See you Thursday!

Cristián

Meet and Chat Buenos Aires

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Suggested topics for the chat

Situations and ideas to develop and discuss in the chat: How do you feel when you get a compliment or a nice word from someone? On the other hand, how do you feel when someone puts you down or ignores you? Why we should all be looking at what is right in life and with each other instead of what is wrong? Apply these answers to work situations, marriages, relationships and friendships, showing how each case can be improved.

Meet & Chat October 29th 2009

We are inaugurating this blog site for all fans of Meet & Chat and new friends. Today is October 29th, 2009, Gnocchi Day! So Good Luck to all! Cristián