Summer Quarterly Meeting!

I am very pleased to announce our Summer Quarterly Meeting, because I am so excited about our speaker, Rebecca K. Weber, who will be speaking to us about German customs.  I'm guessing that it will be some fun and lively discussion!  We will be also be at a new location, so look out for that in the details, too!

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HENhaus Cordially Invites You to A Lecture on German Culture:

"Life in Germany… How To Get Along with Your Neighbors

and Avoid Offending your Waitress."

With Rebecca K. Weber

Hosted by HENhaus

At Our Summer 2011 Quarterly Meeting

All are Welcome!

June 29th 10:00 – 12:00

Erlangen Begegnungszentrum – Raum 2 (Untergeschoss)

Fröbelstr. 6

91058 Erlangen

Toys and space for young children available.

Please RSVP to henhausnewcomer@gmail.com by 6/22

www.henhaus.org

Read more about us in the new issue of "Fritzi" Magazine!

The newest issue of the bi-monthly magazine "Fritzi" is out, and features an article on expat living in our area. This article includes commentary from an interview with me, a little bit about the inspiration for HENhaus and details on who we are and what we do, not to mention discussion around challenges of the expat life with family and kids!

 The German version...

and the English... (click on an image to make them larger...)

Thanks to Gabi over at "Fritzi" magazine for including us!  Click HERE to visit the Fritzi website.

We Need YOU! Sign Up to Volunteer Today!

SO here's a couple things you should know about volunteering...

1. It doesn't take much time.  About as much time as it takes to meet someone for a cup of coffee.
2. If we ask you to meet with a newcomer and you don't have enough time - you can say "No."    We'll just ask you again, when another newcomer comes along who looks like a good match for you.
3. It doesn't matter that you haven't had newcomer greeting training... we'll do that for you and make sure you know what you're doing before you have to greet someone.
4. You can meet lots of cool, new people this way...  as well as feel good about how you spend some of your free time!

And if you STILL feel like it's not right for you...  there are other ways you can help.

1. Know a place that expats frequent where we could hang a flyer?  Please print the attached document, and hang it up the next time you are there.  (Please let me know if you do this so that I don't head there myself! Or tell us where to go, and we'll go hang it up.)
2. Are you a FIS mom?  Let us know, we're looking for a few of you, you might be able to help...
3. Like to write, shop or, um... eat?  We are always looking for new items for the expat blog... please let me know if you would like to contribute... it's easy!  www.germanyexpat.org

Spring Meeting Success!

Thanks to all who were able to attend our Spring meeting last week!  We were able to continue refining the "Newcomer Checklist" to be used when a volunteer greets a newcomer, and our first round of volunteers are officially "trained!"

A few of our newly trained volunteers!

For those our volunteers who were not able to make it, please join us this Thursday night for an evening session!  We will be meeting at 7:30.  Please use the "Contact" form for details.  If you are not able to attend Thursday, and you still have not received training, please contact me so that we can arrange a time!

Spring Meeting Reminder!

This coming Tuesday, the 29th is our Quarterly Spring Meeting.  Please join us at 10 am, at the IJG, Tenenlohestr 47 in Erlangen.  We will be in the meeting room in the basement, which has a great play space for kids, should you need to bring some!  There is extra parking to the left of the building.

We will be covering:

• Volunteer Training for Greeting Newcomers (We have lots coming in!)
• Future Outreach Growth
• Volunteer Membership Drive

Hope to see you there!

Spring Meeting

The Spring volunteers meeting has been scheduled for March 29th.  We will be focusing on volunteer training and newcomer info.  To join us please contact me for details!  (Use the contact form above...)

See you then!

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