Yesterday, thursday evening the 6th of September 2007 at 17 o’clock I had my first coffee meetup. The festivities took place in B 1050 Elsene’s quite popular bar “Belga” on Flagey Place where in earlier days Belgian radio and Television were situated. I left home at about quarter to five weapened with my portable and quite new creative webcam. I had also a study book of turbo c++ in my bag for whatever what reason even if it was only for giving myself a certain attitude. Because we always have plenty of occasion to study the faces of those who take part on the meet up page in question. Easily to find as soon as you are logged in if you reader are still enthousiatic after having read this small report.
I took a fruit juice because the whole happening had kept my mind busy for more than half a week and had made me nervous. Strange because I had some quite well succeeded meetings in the Dutch Mars Society in the year 2003. It must be since my trying to take part in SF café I always believe less in programming ones free time life on internet. it would have been a good occasion to integrate our Bub in my world, thing in which I failed desasterously. Why then? From the other side I couldn’t already imagine myself him agreeing to accompaign me to the Mars Society in Amsterdam. But now it was different, it was in Brussels. I can ascertain you people, this kind of amusement is lots harder then just ordinary visiting bars! I put myself somewhere between the limits of Belga bar, opened my turbo c++ book, read a bit in it while emptying my glass, stood up because I had forgotten to post the letter to my parents that was still in my bag and went to post office. “Damned” I thought by myself “probably the meetup even hadn’t started yet but 2.50 euro is me really too much for going back and sitting there as an idiot for a couple of minutes more”. I strongly suspect the whole meetup for being a promoting of Belga bar, although I shouldn’t exaggerate this. No, maybe it is not even true what I’m pretending here now, but in any case it resembles to that a lot!
I went to one of the ponds of Elsene for filming ducks and geese. Because this was one of the objections for making the meetup a well succeeded evening even if afterwards I wouldn’t have talked to anyone: the politeness could demand that you ask the people their acceptance for filming them. It was all too new for me. At the point my PC slowly started up. Meanwhile the whole local water bird population had become curious and came nearer to me. But that endured and the all the birds went away as it seemed them not much special I was doing there. When they had gone everything got ready and I could start filming, what I didn’t do. I closed and moved towards another place at the pond where they were fed, although this is forbidden. I suppose most white geese were ashamed. Most of them closed their eyes, something I had never seen from them. One of them did sign if they were on the movie now. I nodded my head. Around that time my battery got ermpty. let’s hope on better luck next time!
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