Dear visitor,

Good morning and welcome to today's Newsletter.

The big news this time is that we have moved to a bigger office: Aribau 177, entresuelo 1a, 08036 Barcelona.

The new telephone number is 93 390 27 20. Be sure to up date your address book with the new details!

We had the second monthly workshop session last week and again it went really well. There was lots of lively and interesting discussion about how we communicate with each other in daily work. No conclusions, but plenty of opinions, good fun and laughs!

Is it time for you to be thinking about some interesting and challenging activities to get your own English on the move? You can re-fresh your memory about two of our programs here:

1. Monthly: Conference call and Case study workshops

2. Summer Intensive: Conference call and Case studies

The visit to the Josep Mompou exhibition was reasonably good. Lunch after was more interesting! We went to La Bodegueta de Provença, just off Rambla de Catalunya.

Next visits are to:

Barcelona: visit to the Richard Rogers exhibition at CaixaForum: www.phonepills.com/0904-rogers

Click on the next link, where you can find more about his extraordinary transformation of the old bull ring, Las Arenas in Barcelona: www.phonepills.com/0904-lasarenas

Madrid: CaixaForum - Maurice de Vlaminck exhibition, visit details: www.phonepills.com/0904-vlaminck

Tips

Stress and pressure :

No spaces

We all know that emails can mutate in form as they pass through the internet and go from one system to another. Our email system often has problems with emails sent by Lotus Notes for example.

Things get worse when I want to forward or reply. The original message can be turned into something like this:

>>  Fristofallletmewishyouallthebestforthisnewyear2009, full
click here to read more »

Humour

Money management

Three engineers and three accountants were traveling by train to a conference.

At the station, the three accountants each bought tickets and watched as the three engineers bought only one ticket. "How are three people going to travel on only one ticket?" asked an accountant.

"Watch and you'll see", answered an engineer.

click here to read more »

In case you didn't need a laugh a moment ago, here is a second chance for you. This time you will see how technological changes have caused problems throughout history. It's the Medieval Help Desk, again! It still makes me laugh!

Take a look here »

Any comments? You can email them to me at the bottom of the page.

I would very much appreciate your feedback about this Newsletter and any questions or suggestions that you have. Also, please let me know if you like the exercises that I started to include in the last two or three Newsletters. Do feel free to write in your own language, or in English if you prefer.

Kind regards,
Albert