Culture Flea market is approaching, the last day to book a table is on Wednesday 25 January 2012.You can take so many things or as little things to sell as long as they are from other countries .. Do not miss the chance to make some money! I have been busy putting up posters around townn last week. We want to thank the SFI, Lulea University of Technology, Ulkraft, Tourist office, Asplund's Kids children's clothes and Wok & Roll because we put up our poster on their premises. If you have nothing to sell, you are also welcome to visit our cultural flea market, you might find something interesting! We have Italian coffee with chocolate and cookies for sale too! Welcome at bargain!

Which country are you from? Do you want to start your own language group?

Right now we have three new language group, it is Spanish, Chinese and English groups.

Chinese Speaking Group

I will be leading the Chinese speaking group, and we thought we'd get together once a week on saturday afternoon starting from Feburary. This is not a language class, you have to communicate the basic level to join this group.There are some cultural activities such as Mahjong, Chinese chess and Asian food gathering, and each group must decide what they want to do. It takes only four persons to could start a group so if you can speak madarin, do not hesitate to join the group by contacting me today!

English Speaking Group

I think the English team has the potential to become the largest group .. because most people can speak English. This group will be lead by a young woman from the U.S.A and she will keep us updated on their ideas later this month.

Spanish Speaking Group

This group will be led by two leaders, Juan and Bertalina from Columbia. Today there are already seven Swedish women who are learning Spanish and would like to practice that language .. If you speak Spanish and want to improve your Swedish, this is a great opportunity to exchange languages with this grupp.

Hi everybody!

We are organizing a multi-cultural flea market at Bilda on January 28, at kl 11-14 Is anyone interested for a visit or sell things on our flea market?

I will be away from December 22 to January 9, you can get in touch with Ulrica Rauhala on ulrica.rauhala @ bilda.nu or call 0910 744 640 if you have any questions.

Welcome to book flea market table today!

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year!

12 January 2012

 

Hej allihoppa!

Här kommer bilderna från julfesten den 10 Dec 2011! Här kommer bilderna från Julfest den 10 Dec 2011. Jag är så glad att många dyker upp trots det dåliga vädret. Vi hade en jätte trevlig, alla verkar njuta av spel och mat. Tack alla för att sätta försök att göra detta julfest möjligt. Hoppas vi ses igen på vårt nästa möte efter ny år!

 

Hi everybody!

Now the summer is over, I hope you had a nice summer vacation! I have been working a lot during the summer. There have been many changes and adjustments in my life during the summer and I'm so glad I'm on the right track now!It would be nice to hear what you have been doing since the last time we met!

I am so glad that our previous meetings has been a great experience cultural exchange. We had cooked and tasted food from Ethiopia, Italy, Southeast Asia, Sweden, Spain, etc.. It's so nice to have the opportunity to have lunch once a week together and share our culture, we have also walked in the woods on Vitberget, barbaque at Kyrkholmen , played boules on the Petanque club .. it has been a wonderful journey and I hope that our future events will be more fun and exciting!

This semester we will try new ideas contributed from members. If you want us to test your ideas, tell us! Some of you have been to the new premises on the EFS, I mentioned earlier that we could cook together there. I intend to organize an autumn event sometime in late October and want to know how many of you are interested to join.

I have sent invitation throught the weekly newsletter and for those of you who like to join and were not in my mailing list, you are welcome to write to me at [javascript protected email address]. Our first after-summer meeting will be held on 11 October from 12:00 to 14:00 Bilda (Stationsgatan 15, Skellefteå) I'd love to hear from you before October 9, if you can come. Thanks!

Hej everybody!

I can not believe that we had reach the middle of our summer holiday! I was thinking of organising a barbeque this Saturday on 16 Juli. According to the local weather report, it indicated that there might be a chance for rain and also I might be starting working this week. I will keep all of you posted by newsletter when the barbaque will be held after I know my working schdule.

Meantime, I wish all of you a wonderful summer holiday1

Warm wishes Estee

From 7 Jul 2011

31 May 2011 - Hiking at Vitberget

23 May 2011 - Theme (Singapore & Malaysia)

Here are some photos taken at our Tuesday cooking club meeting. Jane and Gen did a great presentation about Malaysia and Singapore food and culture. Jane made a poster about some facts about living, currency, lifestyle and culture of Malaysia while Gen told us what is most significant about Singapore. Some visitors find it very interesting uneven thought it was difficult to understand why Singapore are not allow to eat chewing gums, throws rubbish on streets and even not flushing public toilet is considered as a offence. The chicken curry Gen made was fantastic! Even Birgritt who is afraid of spicy food helped herself on a second round! The fried rice Jane made was full of asian flavours..the usage of saffran and curry spice definately gave the dish a special "Asian touch" I made a Penarakan dessert made of corn and coconut milk. All the food was well appreciated, thank you Gen and Jane for such a wonderful team work!

Our next event will be hiking at vitberget on 31 May 2011 Kl 12-14. We shall meet at Bilda at 12. For the time being, we only have 3 cars that take us there. Currently, all the seats were taken, if you want to hang along, please contact me at [javascript protected email address] before 30 May. I see what I can do.

Please bring this for the hike:-

1. Good walking shoes

2. A haver sack

3. Lunch

4. Drink

If it´s rain on 31 May, we shall bring forward the event and then we can have lunch together at Bilda instead. We shall discuss about our summer and autum activities.

See you on 31 May 2011 at Bilda kl 12!

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17 May 2011 Theme - Italy!!!!

Hi all,

Carlo did great on cooked his "Perfetto" Italian lasagna and salad . I never taste a lasagna that is so juicy and full of flavors! It was a really good meal! Everyone seem to be very satisfied! I also did some Italian antipasto with anchovi, tomato, mushrooms, olive oil and salted biscuits with Gen and Ramazan help. This meeting, many people showed up! We have one new member from Singapore while the others are no longer strangers to each other .. all of them could quickly jump into conversations like friend who has not met for a long time! Because there were so many people the was lasagna was almost finished directly! Now you know, if you do not want to miss the wonderful food, came earlier!

I noticed most Italian food is made up of three basic color, red, white and green as their flag. I had learned about the terms used in the Italian dinner table.

- Antipasto - these are hot and cold appetizers.

- Primo (first course), usually a few main dish such as pasta, risotto or soup. Usually there are also vegetarian options.

- Secondo (second course), who also is the main dish, usually fish or meat; usually veal is the use of meat, including beef became popular after World War II and game is very popular, mostly in Tuscany.

- Contorno (The Side Dish) is usually a salad or vegetables. - Dolce, there is no better way to end your meal with dessert.

We played "Flags guessing game" hosted by Malin and we managed to guess more than 20 flags correctly, we have many talented people here! At the meeting, I heard Carlo said to another member "Here we are family, we joke and do not take things seriously, I feel at home here!" Those words really warm my heart, if I may briefly describe the Italian, I would say that they are very social, very family oriented, and usually a loyal people. Generous host and excellent cooks.

We also watched some fun and interesting video about the Italian practical jokes and hand guesture. We had some interesting discussion about hand guesture from other countries. That I think was so interesting! Just before we finish, Tage asked the group if anyone wants any bicycle. He had four bicycles at home that he would like to give away! All four bicycles was immediately taken! The bicycle will be perfect for Ramazan who had his foot operated recently, the bicycle will be very useful for him. I am so happy for his sake, thanks Tage for the bicycles!

We meet once a week to eat together, we chat, laugh a whole lot, sharing wonderful moments and life stories, spend quality time togehter both indoors and outdoors, we enjoy each other friendship. Today, free bike and now through newspaper report and personal contact EFS would like to sponsor us their cafe with a great kitchen for our cooking club! There is also a large billiard table, a piano, TV room and a little game to EFS cafe and it will be the perfect place for us to be there to cook together. We will take a short trip after the meeting on Tuesday. See, good thing attracts good people!I am so grateful with people who really wanting to help others!

Next week is our theme, Singapore and Malaysia. Jean from Malaysia, Gene and I are from Singapore will be presenting food and culture of our hometown. Besides food from these two countries, we will also share our language and culture during this meeting. See you there!!

Italian theme 17 May 2011

Hi everybody!

We had a fantastic time at the barbacue picnic last Tuesday. I am so glad many find Kyrkholmen a good new place to venture. If the weather allow I will definately organise more outdoor activities in the summer if anyone interested to join. As you can see from our slide, we had spicy grilled fish, halal sausage, German cook egg, Italian sallad, chocolate chips cookies, Ethopia sausage, BBQ american mashmallow with cookies, grilled white chocolate with banana etc.. We also played kubb before and after food, I am very happy some of the members who never played this game find it very exciting and fun! Despite of a newly operated fee, Ramazan still want to participate in the game! Also it did´nt stop Itfu who was wearing a 3 inch high heel from running.

Our cooking club theme for next week is Italian! Come & taste the real Italian food from Carlo who is from Italy. He will be cooking his famous lasagna and Italian sallad! Carlo is a really funny retired who joke all the time! There´s often alot of laughter when he is around. I will be playing Italian music and may be share a few funny Italian joke videos from Youtude.

There will be cookbooks and some travel book about Italy..so do not miss this exciting Italian experience! If you are not a member of the cooking club and would like to join us on Tuesday, please send me a email.

See you on Tuesday at Bilda kl 12 !

Grill picnic 10 May (Tisdag) Kl 12- 14 Kyrkholmen ö

Hi all,

Now I have moved the language café language cafe to Bilda on Stationsgatan 15 from 3 May, it feels really nice to be there! I want to thank so many of you who wrote to me with so much encouragement. I'm really touched! Your kind words have given me a lot of positive energy and strength. Thanks again! I am so glad that everyone seems to like to be on the new premise and it feels great to have finally have some privacy, I am so glad that everyone seem to be very happy about the new premise. Here is a map to Bilda you are so welcome there! This week was my turn to cook, so I made ​​the Malaysian curry chicken fried rice, while Meyri prepared Ethopian coffee ceromony. Ethiopian coffee ceremony is an integral part of their social and cultural life. An invitation to attend a ceremony coffee is a sign of friendship or respect and is an excellent example of Ethiopian hospitality. Perform the ceremony is almost obligatory in the presence of a visitor, regardless of time of day. Do not hurry, however - this special ceremony may take a few hours. I had to upload image on coffee ceromony below.

Are you eager to attend a barbecue party at Kyrkholmen island? To do this you must register either by phone or e-mail (esteeweng@gmail.com) We gather on Bilda (Stationsgatan 15) at 12 on 10 May and then travel with three cars. We have only 6 seats left. Some members will cycle there. If you want to travel with us by car, please call me or email me before May 9 (Monday)

What should you bring? You can take any barbecue food, barbecue accessories, drinks and a sitting mat, We have wood or coal is with us. We will play bowler after food, so it can would be good if you take on the training shoes.

Warm Welcome!

Sincerely,

Estee Weng

Ethopian coffee ceromony 3 May 2011

Reportage om Matlagningsklubb 30 April 2011 Norran

Här kommer några bilder jag tog från International easter party 19 April 2011

Thursday 14 April - Boule session is FULL!

12 April 2011

We were very pampered today at the cooking club, Mariya, Meyti & Iftu made one of the most delicious Ethopian food for us! We felt so fortunate! I love the lamb beri beri stew, this was so aromatic and full of flavours! The biddeena (Soft bread) were so moisted and tasty and the stir fried spenach together with the bean paste were excellent! We learn how to eat with our 5 fingers and it´s a real unique experience for us! What a treat! I understand from the 3 ladies that this is a special dish Ethopian made for very special occassion like wedding, birthday and other traditional festive seasons. If you like to cater this food for your special event, do not hesitate to contact Mariya at mariya@oromo.se she will be more then happy to cook for you! Here are some pictures taken today :

8 April 2011

Here are some of the happening at the language café this week!

Tuesday 5 April 2011

This week, Malin from Sweden and Ramazah from Iran had cooked for the cooking club members! Malin made a reindeer stew with smashed patatoes and lingon jam while Ramazah made his Speciality "Iran beef stew". This was a uniques experience for some members because that was their first time they ate reindeer. Very creamy..they said. Ramazah´s stew has also very special flavour of curry, corriander and other spices. I enjoyed the food very much! Thank you Malin and Ramazah for the delicious food! After the food, I challenged the group a food guessing game. Members were divided into 2 group, who ever who guessed the most food correctly, win. I am so glad everyone seem to enjoy the game very much! Next week Mariya, Meyti and Iftu will cook Ethopian food for us!!!

Thursday 7 April 2011

On Thursday, I challenge our group members on some team building games. We are crossing river with feet tied so we learn how to balance and improve body communication skills. Another challenge is to blind fold a member and get the non speaking swedish member to give direction to the person blindfolded. This is a good training not only to learn how to give directions but also team work spirits! There were lots of laughters..even tears from joy. I will definately continue this challenge in the next few week ahead. Gold City Petanque Club offers 10 tickets to our language cafe guests free boules session. Come and try this noble ball game Thursday, April 14 between 12:00 to 14:00. There are only 5 vacancie available now, to make reservation write to me at[javascript protected email address]. We shall meet at café at 11:45 so we can walk to the club together. Bring a pair of comfortable shoes and comfortable clothing and make an attempt to meet with "little man" Hope to see you at café next week!

29 March 2011 -

He everybody!

We had a fantastic day yesterday, Norran came to interview almost everyone at the cooking club, more than 20 people turned up and all our cooking club members were so spontenous when being interviewed by the journalist. Every one seem to be very excited, Metiy, Iftu and Mariya even dressed in their traditional costume from Ethopia for this occasion! I am so glad to see people being so enthusiatic and passion about their culture and traditions! Our International "Fika" buffe is one and the only one. There were all sort of Fika from savory to sweet , even spicy! I would like to thanks everyone for sharing their wonderful food, friendship and culture! At the favourite cook book sharing session, I am amazed that many of the members were so brave and creative! They dare took the 2 mintues presentation opportunity to stand infornt of a big group of people to talked about food culture, eating habits, tradition food, even description of how the fika was prepared. Good job! I am so proud of them! This to me is very important as it showed how keen everybody are wanting to improve the language. Our theme for next week is "Taste & Smell" each of us will bring 1 or 2 spice or ingrdient from other country for everybody to taste or smell! We will also pay game with this spice and learn new ingredient and words.

31 March 2011 (Thursday) Members´s choice!!

This is a new discussion group for anyone who like to try their own ideas. We will discuss about what we can do in the next few week ahead.

27 March 2011

Hi everybody!

Our cooking club is growing gradually and I am so excited that our club has caught the attention of the press again! Norran is coming to visit us on Tuesday! Our theme for this Tuesday meeting is International Fika plus favourite cook book presentation. Each member will bring a small portion of bakery from their hometwon to share among the members. Every members will be given 2 minutes to do a presentation of their favourite cook book in Swedish! Starting from this week, I will be writing a new column to spotlight a member of our group through interview. I think this is a great way to present the new Swedish here in Skellefteå. My first guest is Miss Jeri Emeru from Ethopia ,one of Sweden's fastest runners living in Skellefteå. Jeri Emeru who came to Sweden as asylum seekers in summer

Here´s is some fact on Jeri Emeru by Västerbotten Radio P4-

Jeri Emeru from Ethiopia have had great success in running events in Sweden. - It's pretty simple games, simply because I always liked to run, "she explains. So far she has been involved in four competitions and coach Kent Norstrom is impressed. - She has shown good results in all of them. In addition, she is not really used this climate so it is incredibly talented as she is, "he says. Jeri Emerus results in 5000 and 10 000 places her among Sweden's best runners. She got a 11 years old track record at DM in Skellefteå and Umeå won the Quarter-Marathon, where she got a 19 years old course record. Race condition means that the times she does come with the Swedish athletics annual statistics, but she may not compete in national team because she is not a Swedish citizen. - You wish you could do as it is with some business leaders that they may be a bit faster citizenship in Sweden. I hope that we can help her with this too. Because if nobody does anything it can go five years before she becomes a Swedish citizen, "said Lennart Jonsson, who is club director in Skellefteå AIK athletics club. - I really hope that she is through our help, and may remain, and may develop and become better and can move forward in one way or another, "he says. And Jeri Emerus personal goals for the future is to break records in both 5000 and 10 000 feet. When I asked Jeri about how she is doing recently, she said she has been quite down due to the long cold winter and her limited ability to communicate. She felt very lonely and longing to have new friends. She came to the Language cafe with a good friend Sara. Both of them studies Swedish at the local church for one and half hour everyday for 2 months now. Jeri said it´s not much to do here in Skellefteå, there is not much activities here. She hope that the language café will help her to be better in Swedish and hopefully she could find a reason to stay here later. She is very happy to have found us and she look forward for more meetings! The Ethopian bread Jeri made is absolutely delicious! I never seen a bread so big 40 x 30 cm!!! We ate the bread with a special vegetable stew made by Sara. I am so proud Jeri put in a lot of effort to explained to us how the food was prepared. Her determinations to success make me and others feel very encouraging! Hope to see you in our next café meeting!!  

21 March 2011 (Update)

Hi everybody!, I can feel how generous peoples are when it come to sharing, our cooking club members not only share their food , secret recipe and kulture among the group member, I feel also people commitment to build strong friendship thru sharing. Thank you everyone for being so generous sharing your love for food and friendship.  

Tuesday 22 March 2011

Cooking club meeting theme : Ethopia

Time : 12-14

Tomorrow our 3 members from Ethopia will be cooking for us! One of them is a popular marathon runner Jeri Emeru, Sara and Adulahamad. We will learn to eat with fingers!!!The Ethopia way!! I think it will be so interesting!  

Thursday 24 March 2011

Face Yoga - Time 12-13

Swedish conversation - Time 12 - 14

13 March 2011 (UPDATES)

Hi everybody! Now we just have a cooking club on every Tuesday at 12 to 13. You are most welcome to visit språfcafé after 13 pm if you want to practice the language. In the case Thursday, we will focus on language and other interesting subjects. In the near future we will conduct mini session on yoga facial, makeup, exercise, etc. .. Check out the calendar!

Tuesday - Cooking Club

Time: 12 - 14:00 Theme: Malaysia & Columbia Jane will receive Malaysian satay and Bertalina will make Columbia chicken pies. Right now, our group 1 is filled. If you want to join the cooking club contact me before you come.

Thursday - Face Yoga (For men and women)

Time: 12 - 13:00 Do you have wrinkles around the eyes, or a double chin started to appear in earnest? It is a fantastic way to transform the face and do a "face lift" without surgery. And not least, it's free and it is easy to perform. Facial Yoga consists of a few simple exercises. You can effectively remove and prevent a double chin, wrinkles around the forehead, mouth and eyes, lifting hanging cheeks and ensure smooth out. Come and try-it! Time: 13: 00 - 14:00 Speed ​​Conversation 
Hope to see you there again! Warm welcome! Estee

Cooking Club Meeting - 8 March 2011

Theme : Swedish

IMPORTANT NOTICE!

7 March 2011 (Monday)

Hi, I just want to inform you that cafe will be closed this week due to Winter break. Our cooking club meeting tomorrow will be held at Bilda at Stationsgatan 15 (see map), at 12-13. If you do not know how to find your way there , I will be waiting at the main entrance of Efyran tomorrow between 11:45 to 12:00 so we can take a walk to the place together! We will keep our language cafe on the Bilda on Thursday at 12 - 14pm too. Call me at 070 567 4577 if you have any questions. I look forward to seeing you tomorrow! /Estee Weng

6 March 2011

Hi everybody! Here you have some information about what will happen to week 10!

Tuesday March 8, 2011

Time : 12-13 - Cooking Club Meeting 2 Theme: Swedish Food Menu: Västerbotten pie & Semlor Our cooking club is growing fast! We presently have 14 members in the club! If the group becomes too large, we might divide the group into two so that everyone has an opportunity to cook at least once a month. In addition to cooking for the group, there will be various types of challenges so that we can learn more about cooking and the chance to use our creativity. Time : 13-14 - Speed conversation Topic: "How often do I. .." & "Dream House"

Thursday, March 10, 2011

Time : 12 pm - 12:30 - 1 minutes challenge Time : 12:30 to 13:30 - Information meeting If you get 7 minutes to tell us about yourself and your country of origin or history of "Storytelling Festival in Skellefteå" Would you take the chance? Do you like taking pictures and want to show your photograph during the festival? Or do you have a special hobby that almost nobody knows about in Sweden and want to share it at the festival? If the above opportunity sounds interesting to you, you are welcome at an information meeting! Time : 13:30 to 14:00 - Knitting Do you know how to knit? On cafe, there is a basket full of wool and we are looking for volunteers who can show us how to knit. Can you or someone you know might be interested? See you on Tuesday and Thursday!

Update 2 March 2011

Our first cooking club meeting was a very successful one. It´s so fun to see a few more new faces in the cooking club and to have same interest discussion on food and culture! We started the meeting from learning how to wrap spring rolls, everyone seem to be very fast in learning and members are so brave to try different way to make and eat spring rolls. Martha´s Chicken rice were also another great success! This dish is so tasty it it remind me of a fried rice except that it was prepared in a much easier methods. The recipe has been upload at our site, if you are going to try out the recipe please leave us a comment & tell us about the result. The cooking club is always open for more new member to join, feel free to drop in tomorrow at Efyran between 12-14 if you like to join. I shall give you more information. On our next cooking club meeting on 8 March, the theme is "Swedish food" and it´s also "shrove tuesday", Birgritt is planning to bring along some home baked semlor and Christian is going to make Västerbotton pie. For this, you get to experience the real typical Swedish tradition food! Tomorrow we will try out a new 1 minutes challenge, knitting, and some funny questions at speed conversation. Those of you who is interested in creating your own blog, I can show you how you can create a personal blog in just 15 minutes. See you tomorrow!

Here´s some pictures taken from our first cooking club meeting today!

25 Feb 2011 Note : Our site can be translated into 53 different languages? You can select the language on the left side under the menu bar on the left hand side of website!

Tuesday - 1 March 2011

Kl 12:00 - 13:00 Cooking club I am looking forward to Tuesday because it will then be our first cooking club tasting session! We will be tasting Chicken rice from Columbia and a special healthy version spring rolls from Singapore. The cooking club will start at 12:00 and end at 13:00. We shall start off with learning how to wrap and roll spring rolls, I will be coaching this session and later we shall learn how to cook and taste chicken rice from Martha from Columbia. Interested to join this cooking club? You are welcome to visit us on Tuesday for a discussion. After the cooking club session we will continue with language cafe activity. 13:00 - 14:00 Speed conversation This follows the format of the speed-dating or speed-networking, where participants have a certain amount of time to exchange information with each other. Guests are paired. The timer will allow some time to loosen the tongue or speak in a language. When the bell rings, it's time to change partners. Simple and fun!

Thursday - 3 March 2011

12:00-12:30 1 mintue challenge This week, we tried to build a tower with with plastic cup and paper plate under 1 mintues. More than 10 persons has tried this challenge and the best record was 41 seconds!!!! We will have new challenge every week, so come take the challenge! 12:30 - 13:30 Speed conversation This follows the format of the speed-dating or speed-networking, where participants have a certain amount of time to exchange information with each other. Guests are paired. The timer will allow some time to loosen the tongue or speak in a language. When the bell rings, it's time to change partners. Simple and fun! 12:45 - 14:00 Do you want to know how to create your own blog? Here´s a the opportunity! Come join us on Thursday meeting, I will show you how to create a simple personal blog.

Here are some photo taken on week 8.

22 Feb 2011

Meeting Note: We had seek permission from people who appeared in this album to publish this at our website.

21 Feb 2011 Hi everybody! Good news for those who could just come to the cafe on Tuesday and are interested in cooking club. Now there are cooking club on Tuesday as well! The first meeting will be tomorrow, also on Thursday, February 24. Interested in participating? Here is the application form. Did you know that our site can be translated into 53 different languages? You can select the language on the left side under the menu bar on the left hand side of website! This week we will work out at the speed of conversation! This follows the format of the speed-dating where participants have some time to exchange information with each other. Guests are paired, this means you have much opportunity to talk one on one. This idea of allowing too little time to loosen your tongue or speak in a language. When the bell rings, it's time to change partners. Simple and fun! 1 minutes challenge last week is well and appreciate many of you think it was great!, so I will challenge you with a new game this week. I keep this a secret, you will find out what challenges you meet. Coffee pot is full and I look forward to seeing you tomorrow!

19 Feb 2011

A few great news to share this week! Starting from next week, we will provide all café visitor free coffee and tea. However, if you like to make any donation, you are welcome to do so. We can collect the money and use it for future events. It was great to see so many new faces on the waffle party on Tuesday meeting. I am so glad that some of the visitors who had never tried waffles before enjoy it very much! While in the kitchen, Martha and myself were busy making more than 60 waffles and all was eaten!!!I am so glad the party was well appreciated and I hope we could do this again sometime! Have you seen lately SVT game shows - 1 minute? At Thursday meeting, we'll try chopstick game among those who turned up. It´s so fun to see that some of our visitors who never even used chopstick before so keen in mastering chopstick. Even though we did not meet the world´s record, this was as good because there were lots of laughter and we really had a wonderful time. It´s so nice to see the people´s full of enthusiasm! Here´s some picture taken this week. Note: We had seek permission from people who appeared in this album to publish this at our website. Cooking Club!!!   Do you like to cook? Do you think it is exciting to learn new things about other cultures? Want to share your cooking and traditional food with people from other cultures? Do you want to improve your language skills and help others to learn your language? If your answer is yes to any of these questions, then maybe you'd be interested to join the Cooking Club is a meeting place for multinational people from Skellefteå! Cooking club is open to all, both experienced and unexperienced cooks are welcome! We will both teach and learn from each other about our own cultural background. We meet every Tuesday & Thursday at 12:00 to 14:00 at cafe. How does it work? Each week, 1-2 members shall prepare a dish for group sampling. The amount will depend on the number of participants. You are required to prepare food at home, if you need to warm the food we have a kitchen. The chef is also responsible for writing the recipe. We help you to print the recipe so all club members will receive your prescription. We will take pictures of food and publish your recipe on our website. If you are interested in joining the club, please submit your contact details and breiftly descibe what kind of food you will share. If you have friend who do not have access to internet and am interested to join the club, they can either call Estee at 070 567 4577 or drop by at café opening hour. The first meeting for cooking club will start on Tuesday 22 Feb and Thursday 24 Feb kl 12 - 14. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact me at[javascript protected email address] Application form in English. Application form in Swedish. We have extended opening hours from one hour to two hours. We made this adjustment because we understand that many of our visitor stop school 10 mintues before 12 and would like to come to café directly after school hour, so from now onward our café will operate every Tuesday & Thursday between 12 to 14. Do not worry if you could not come in time, you are always welcome to drop by anytime between this operating hours. Warm welcome!
You are invited to a waffles party tomorrow 15 /Feb at kl 12 -14! Warm welcome! Nyhetsbrev Vecka 4 Är du intresserad av att starta ditt eget språk grupp, eller har du en rolig idé som du vill testa eller har du något spel eller de aktiviteter som du tror kan vara kul för oss på café? Tveka inte att kontakter mig så jag kan hjälpa dig att planera.
Vad händer i februari ?
Alla hjärtans dag Pyssel!!! 8,9 & 10 Feb 2011 Kommit med öppna och kärleksfulla hjärta, vi har materialet!      Våfflor dag 15 Feb 2011 Vi har våfflor jarn, blandning av våfflor, grädde, marmelad och kaffé . Du kan göra dina egna våfflor. Om du gillar att äta våfflor på annat sätt får du gärna visa oss eller ta med egen ingrediens! Det är alltid roligt att se hur människor från andra länder äter sina våfflor.
Ungdom Språkcafé Med start onsdag 2 februari klockan 16.00 så öppnar språkcafé med inriktning till ungdomar mellan 16 och 23 år. På språkcaféet träffar ni andra språksugna ungdomar som vill träna ett visst språk, eller kanske någon bara vill ”damma” av gamla kunskaper i ett språk om man t.ex. tänker resa utomlands på semester och vill kunna kommunicera på det landets hemspråk. Språkcaféet finns på viktoriagatan 3 på nedre botten i efyranhuset (ungdomens hus) där det går att köpa allt från enklare maträtter till gofika i husets café. Tanken med språkcaféet utöver att lära sig ett favoritspråk bättre är att träffa andra likasinnade ungdomar från Skellefteås gymnasieskolor, kanske få nya vänner och knyta framtida kontakter. Hur språkcaféet ska utformas bestämmer du som besökare. I  lokaler finns nästan obegränsade möjligheter med allt från biljard och pingis till filmvisning, scenuppträdande, matlagning, grilla ute när vädret tillåter, spela spel, pyssla och naturligtvis bara sitta ner med en kopp te eller kaffe och prata. Hoppas att ni tycker detta låter intressant och kommer till oss på onsdag. Språkcaféet är gratis naturligtvis och trevligt också förhoppningsvis. Varmt välkommen!
25 Jan 2011 Informationsmöte för språkcafé för en tonåring mellan 16 - 23 år på  klockan 15:00 imorgon kommer förlängas med ytterligar en timme! Vi planerar att lägga till en annan session på onsdagen från 2 februari kl 16:00 till 18:00 för ungdom besökare. Om du känner till någon mellan denna ålder och kan vara intresserad .........av språk, uppmuntra dem att komma! Kaffekannan är på! Varmt välkomen !
Nyhetsbrev Vecka 3 20/01/2011 Hej ! Det finns många uppdateringar i den här veckans nyhetsbrev! *Ny webbplats www.kulturhus.n.nu *Nu har språkcaféet en egen hemsida på 53 olika språk! Ibland kan Googles översättare vara bristfällig och användare bör bara använda detta verktyg för att få en uppfattning om vad en utländsk text skulle kunna innebära på olika språk. Detta nyhetsbrev publiceras även på vår nya hemsida Nyhetsbrev catergory. Du kan testa översättaren på detta brev från vår hemsida. Undersökning för att ta reda på vad besökarna tycker om att göra på språkcaféet Vi vill gärna veta vad du gillar att göra på språkcafeét så vi kan planera vår aktiviteter enligt dina önskemål. Ta chansen! Hur kan vi veta vad du vill göra? Det är klart man måste fråga! Här är ett frågeformulär som bara tar 2 minuter att slutföra. När du har avslutat frågorna, kom ihåg att trycka på "Skicka" Evenemangskalender På hemsidan finns även en evenemangskalender där du kan se vilka aktiviteter vi har planerat. Obs..Vi kommer att lägga till mer detaljerade uppgifter om evenemangen senare i veckan och mer spännande händelser när resultatet av undersökningen är klar. Jag har precis upptäckt att många av våra cafébesökare från SFI inte kunde komma till caféet på grund av deras nya schema på skolan. På grund av detta kommer vi att justera om våra tider för språkcaféet till en mer lämplig tid. Vår torsdagssession kommer att vara som vanligt och vi kommer bara att göra justeringar för tisdagens café. Jag kommer att hålla er informerad när jag vet vilken som kommer att vara den mest lämpliga tiden för de flesta. Från våra tidigare kontakter med cafébesökare märker vi att många av er har kreativa idéer om hur man gör caféet mer intressant. Vissa har även frågat om de kan starta en egen språkgrupp. Jag blir glad över att se människor som vill utmana sig själva. Jag tror att det här är lysande idéer och jag kommer att hjälpa er om ni behöver något material eller få kontakter. *Språkträff* för Ungdomar I år samarbetar Språkcafé i Skellefteå. Med anledning av det så kommer vi att arrangera ett informationsmöte den 26 januari. Syftet med informationsmötet är att göra en undersökning för att ta reda på vad besökaren vill göra under sitt cafébesök. Med vänliga hälsningar, Estee Weng      I år samarbetar Språkcafé i Skellefteå. Med anledning av det så kommer vi att arrangera ett informationsmöte den 26 januari. Syftet med informationsmötet är att göra en undersökning för att ta reda på vad besökaren vill göra under sitt cafébesök. Varmt välkommen!!! Sökes: medspråkande världsmedborgare! Detta är en efterlysning av en eller flera personer med ett intresse för språk, som vill träffa likasinnade. Den vi söker pratar ett eller flera språk och vill dela med sig av sina kunskaper till andra som kanske för tillfället studerar eller på annat sätt lär sig ett språk. Det kan...... vara allt från Svenska till Kinesiska, inget språk är för oss främmande. Hör av dig till oss, vi behöver just dig! maila: esteeweng@gmail.com Estee