Shclub - English Club Dresden Neustadt

English club Dresden Neustadt is a loosely knit bunch of poeple, native speakers and English speaking Germans. We are meeting every Wednesday evening in a different pub in Neustadt.

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Next week we are meeting at Planwirtschaft on Louisenstraße 20. See you there.

I will be there so look forward to meeting everybody (that is there) on Wednesday.

I just got to town Sunday. I look forward to meeting everyone tonight.

I walked past Planwirtschaft last night, seems to be a big place.

Be on the look out for someone looking like they are looking for people they have never met before :-)

ok as i can not send any pms here i will be there and now everyone can know it. shit internet blocking PMing on forums

On Wednesday, December 5, we are meeting at Neustädter Diechl. It's in the backyard, next to Nordbad. Entrances are from Louisenstraße 48 and from Böhmische Straße 27. See a map at: www.neustaedter-diechl.de/plan.html

Neustädter Diechl is the most authentic GDR-style pub that I know. The food is real, too, and really good.

This is so cool! so many meetups. Keep this going folks! I will join if I can really catch the forum notice in time!

Due to the nice Drewag people cutting of my electricity yesterday (something I only found after getting home at 8pm) I could not make it last night.

I am not even a customer of Drewag... It seems that could be the problem, our new supplier has not taken us over and Drewag have decided enough free power is enough.

Sometimes you miss the little things from back home, like that little law that says the Power company have to let you know they are going to cut you off...

I could not make it also as as i was watching the Arsenal -Newcastle match. How many people turned up ???

4. Good food, good beer and good times all around.

I'm going to be in Dresden next week, and hope to be free Wednesday evening. Where are you going to meet on December 12th? Hope to see you there!

Hi, I would like to join you, Wednesday evening should be okay for me I think. I just hope more TTers will turn up.

@Matt T: Welcome to DD.
BTW ..the picture is cool, I couldn't stop laughing. 10 points!

best regards,
Jil

We're meeting at Mond Palast on Wednesday December 12
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Robert

http://www.mondpalast.de/flash.php

Did you guys decide on where to meet next week? It's customary for those who attend to come up with the location for the following week. Could you please post the location for next week. I'm pretty sure I will be over this laryngitis and will be able to join you by then.

Thanks,

Robert

i like martinez in the hechtvietal

good black beer and nice food

Martinez
Rudolf-Leonhard-Straße 31 (in Hechtviertel)

The first English Club meeting in the new year is on Wednesday, January 9, at Mondpalast on Louisenstraße 77.

Hello all! I'll be returning to Dresden on Jan 10th... Good to see there's some new people on this forum since I left (in Oct 2007). Looking forward to meeting y'all.

I cannot make it tonight as I have to work late (why some companies decide to do stuff late in the evening is beyond me).

Happy New year!

Wednesday January 16:

We are meeting at Red Rooster, the English pub on Rähnitzgasse 10 (that's a side road from Königstraße).

On Wednesday, January 23, we are meeting at the Irish Pub Tir'Na'Nog on Bischofsweg 34.

On Wednesday, January 30, we are meeting at Neustädter Diechl. It's next to Nordbad. Entrances to the backyard are from Luisenstraße 48 and Bömische Straße 27.

On Wednesday, February 6, we are meeting at the Cuban bar and restaurant Martinez on Rudolf-Leonhard-Straße 31.

Hello All,

I just moved to Dresden from Austin, TX this week. Hope to make some of these events as I'm fairly eager to make new friends. Any news for some meetups anytime soon?

Why not stop by tonight?

We don't have any long term plans, but we are meeting regularly every Wednesday in a pub in Neustadt. At the meeting we have a democratic vote where to meet next week. You will see how much fun democracy can be .

See you soon.

On Wednesday, February 13, we are meeting at the other Cuban restaurant El Cubanito on the corner Sebnitzer/Görlitzer Straße.

On Wednesday, February 20, we are meeting at Café 100 on Alaunstraße 100.

How many people usually turn up to English club? I have been twice and it has been fairly disappointing.

Last night we were 9. The week before even 14 or so. It seems you were unlucky the two times you came to the meeting but usually it's a good balance between men and woman, Germans and foreigners, ages and professions.

Hi Guys,

Mainul (the new guy from Bangladesh who came to El Cubanito on Wednesday) sent this e-mail to me for anyone who is interested:

Tomorrow Sunday, 17 Feb 11 Uhr in Filmtheter Schauburg (close to
Bischopsplatz, Neustadt...www.schauburg-dresden.de) I will go with
some friends to watch Soviet Film Solaris

>> More Info on this Film :
>> http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solaris_%281972%29

>> http://www.schauburg-dresden.de/programm/b...ung.php?id=1645

If you feel interested, just come join us...

# Its probably in German language...

Hi Guys,

We had a major party at Watzke's on Friday--bummer if you missed it.

We talked about trips to Prague, Vienna, and Tokyo as well as doing other events, Karaoke, bowling, getting pissed, etc on other days than Wednesday...

I am going to try to make a little mailing list with events like this that anyone can post to (like the movie event tomorrow).

If you want me to put you on the list and send you an update anytime I know about a (prospective) event, let me know with a pm with your e-mail.

sorry i missed movie night. I was working nad did not see the posts here

Hey, there is a group of English speaking Foreign Language Assistants that would love to meet up with you all!

Cool! Are they hot?

It should just be clear that this group is not for people who want to "learn English". You should be pretty proficient when you show up at these meetings (from what I have seen) or people don't really slow down to talk to you--that is just how it is.

I hate to differ with you, but if you're referring to Schlub then yes, it is intended for people who either don't speak english as a native language and want to learn more by associating with those who do, or people who are native speakers and want to associate with the the non-native speakers and perhaps learn a little German while at the same time make some new friends. Shclub was started by an English teacher friend of mine a few years ago. As a general rule, one should avoid speaking German if they plan to attend the Shclub meetings on Wednesday nights but it's not a hard and fast rule. I would really dislike it if non-native english speakers were dissuaded to come based on your comment about our club. If you're referring to the Toytown meetups, then I would agree with you. But they are two completely separate groups and just so happen to have crossed paths in the last 4 months or so. I for one would prefer it if these 2 groups of people would remain separate groups because the Toytown meetups are for ex-pats while the Shclub meetups are meant to be for non-native speakers and I would not want to as I said, dissuade anyone from coming to either based on some false pretense. I thank you for your comment about our club though as I welcome all comments.

Cheers,
Robert

I have actually no idea what Shclub is or Toytown or English club or whatever. I was just there on Wednesday sometimes and noticed that people who don't seem to speak such good English seem to be real quiet and might feel left out.

Maybe someone can explain to me all of these groups exactly. I think it is just cool to meet other expats and that was what I was using 'Wednesdays' (whichever group that is) for.

Thx!

If they seemed quiet it is probably because as you said in your previous post, something went way over their head. Shclub was created by an English teacher years ago for his students in order to help them learn English, and for native-english speakers to associate and make new friends. The site is here: Shclub

It is not to be confused with Toytown even though the meetups have been posted here as of late. We found that attendence was dropping due to some key people moving to Paris and Berlin and other factors so we decided to post announcements about our meetings here.

Toytown members used to have blazing meetups up until one or two key people who usually organized things returned to their homelands. Perhaps someone can hold the Toytown torch and plan some Toytown ex-pat meetups where learning english is not one of the core reasons why people attend. But whoever that person is, my best advice is to just post events instead of keeping some email list because my experience is that most people don't like to be on mailing lists and would prefer the freedom to just check out the site and choose to attend or not, and not feel obligated to attend. Of course, if you want to keep a list of email addresses of people who you would like to keep in touch with then that is your own business. I would avoid posting such things as private house parties on the internet because you might get more people coming than you bargained for. In our Shclub, we sometimes post events and people either show up or they don't. But in the past even when just two of us showed up then we always made quite a nice day of it. Well, up until just a couple weeks ago that is... ... ...

Good luck to you in your search for more friends. It's always better to make friends than enemies. And I guess that is what this Toytown website is for, although you wouldn't know it by reading some of the posts.

Cheers,

Robert

I'll rephrase what I said... there a a few Native English Speakers that might like to join a meeting one time for no other reason than to speak English and talk about shared experiences. Though the prospect of desperate men is putting me off.

Hope to be there tonight as I missed last weeks meetup. As I posted earlier I'm from Austin, TX which is a pretty diverse and low key city...which is on the Colorado river...that's why I love that I live pretty close to the Elbe. Austin is known as "The Live Music Capital of the World" so if any of you know of any cool music dives please let me know. I left behind a pretty cool social scene which is why I'm stoked about meeting up and making some friends. See you all later.

What time do you guys usually meet?

How many people were there tonight? Did I count 15? And how many for the first time? At least 2 or 3, right?

At least 4 more new people showed up after you left. Good times.

Hi everybody,

as I didn't make it to last night's meeting, did you agree on a place where to meet next week?

See you soon.

Straker and That Austin Guy said they would post it. I asked That Austin Guy to choose since it's his last meeting with us before he goes home.

Robert

next meet up 27th feb
PlanWirtschaft
www.planwirtschaft.de

Louisenstr. 20
01099 Dresden, Germany
+49 351 8013187

hey, so what time do you guys normally meet on wednesdays?
i'm new to dresden and just starting to learn german. it would be great to meet up with some other english speakers!

between 7-9

On Wednesday, March 5, we are meeting at Terrasse am Bischofsplatz on Bischofsplatz 2.

On Wednesday, March 12, we are meeting at Trotzdem on Alaunstraße 81.