RDC (Russian Discussion Club)

Russian Speaking Professionals in The Netherlands is proud to introduce our first Discussion Club meeting entitled “The Best Way to Find Yourself in the Netherlands” will be held in The Hague on Friday March 5 2010. Everyone can prepare a brief introduction or tell us a short story about your experience in "surviving in the Netherlands". Please prepare interesting, challenging, funny stories, one story if enough. Alexander Fain and Irina Kremin will be leading the first meeting, next time it can be YOU!

The rules of the club is that after listening to a short introduction from the guest speakers, we will give an opportunity to everyone to present their point of view on the subject. The length of each presentation has a limit of 5 min (we will be timing!). Whether you have an experience with public presentation or not, its a lot easier to prepare a five minute talk than a long talk. For our club Talk, you don't need to make slides, and if you do decide to make slides, you only need to make maximum 5. And if you are nervous, no worry, the painful part will be over quickly. Maybe you don't have much to say. Maybe you just want to ask a question, or invite people to help you with your project, or boast about something you did, or tell a short cautionary story.

During the meeting we will have a social part where we will be offering drinks and snacks (sandwiches, and finger food) . Location is sponsored by Russian Cultural Centre Amsterdam. Cost for catering is 12.00 Euros per person if registered online, and 15.00 Euros per person if registered at the door, reservation is compulsory, places are limited to 60.

Please post a message below on the Wall if you like to arrange/offer carpooling.

If you are worry about how you can squeeze a whole talk into five minutes, dont! The point is that because the talk is only five minutes long, you don't have to take it so seriously. Just try to say something brief and interesting, and then if people want to follow up or ask questions, they will catch you in the break afterwards.

Our meetings are held in Russian.