(From
left to right) Mam, one of the serving beauties at Thai Garden, Ulla H๖cking,
her husband Achim is hiding behind Elfi, next to him is Gerd Tapken.
Brunhilde Schultes is hiding behind Stefan Kaspar, while Ille Tapken is
tall enough to glimpse over his shoulder. Yupin, long-time sweetheart of
all guests is small enough for Dieter Precourt to pear over, and founding
member Anita Schoch-Kaspar and Horst Haehl round out the group.
The English translation for Weltenbummler is
Globetrotters. But these aren’t the very tall, dark skinned,
“all-American” guys with basketballs; Pattaya’s “Globetrotters”
(Die Weltenbummler) are people of all sizes, both sexes and any
nationality, yet they have to be able to speak German.
The Die Weltenbummler group was formed because some of
the German language speaking people felt that there was a lack of a German
language clubs in Pattaya. So five energetic ladies decided to do
something about it. Three of them are Germans, Ann Paschalis, Monika
Podleska and Roswitha Thein, one, Anita G. Schoch-Kaspar, is from hilly
Switzerland and the last one, Elfi Seitz, comes from the country of the
Sound of Music, Austria.
Put anything in the hands of these girls and you can be
sure it gets done. Within no time the venue for the club was agreed upon.
Since Elfi is the guest service manager of the Thai Garden Resort, it is
surely very handy to hold the meetings there. The very first lunch meeting
of this newly founded club was held on March 14th. Some of the founding
members were in Europe at the time, but 10 people still came together to
talk, exchange ideas and watch as one of the Thai Garden’s staff taught
them how to make flowers out of tissue paper.
It was agreed that the meetings will be held every
second Thursday at 12:00 noon at the (air-conditioned) Moon River Pub at
the Thai Garden Resort. There will be activities at every meeting, German
language books and magazines will be on display, which can be rented out
for 20 baht, and some of the board members already have some surprises up
their sleeves.
The next lunch meeting is already planned and will be
held on Thursday, April 11th at 12 noon. People who can speak German are
invited to come along and take a look, and if they like it, they can
become members.
People
of all ages joined in the fun.
The
Association of Filipinos in Thailand left Jomtien a better place last
Sunday, and certainly much cleaner.
Pascal
Schnyder and his wife Kim welcomed their many friends to the first Casa
Pascal Sunday Brunch as a celebration of the first anniversary of their
restaurant.
Geordie
Dave (2nd left in the white T-shirt) and friends after the walk.
