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Lesson 2 Welcome to the Repair Café!
1 Imagine that you enter a café for a cup of coffee.) You walk inside and sit at a t table/near the door. As you
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look for the waitress you realize that this is no ordinary café.) On the other side of the room/there are long
tables with work stations. Coffee is being passed around. A woman walks up to you and asks in a friendly
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manner, "Hello! What have you brought us today?”
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2 Puzzled, you look across at a woman seated at one of the tables). She is talking to an elderly man and
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holding up a very old steam iron. “It doesn't work anymore!" she explains to the old man who is nodding
and sipping his coffee.) The old man takes the plastic case off the iron, looks inside, and begins removing
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parts. After working on the iron for ten minutes, he puts the case back on. Two parts are left on the table.
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he explains to the woman, these are not so important." He plugs in the iron and pushes the
"Don't worry,
start button. A green light comes on.
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The woman smiles, thanks him/finishes her coffee and leaves.
3 Welcome to the Repair Café!
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4 The Repair Café was started in 2009 as a way to help people reduce waste. Martine Postma, who founded
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the café explains how it started.] "I had just had my second child. I was very worried about the
environment/and realized that we throw away so many appliances and useful things in Europe.) Because
there are more and more people in the world, we cannot keep doing this. That is why I opened the Repair
Café."
5. "For a long time, I went to workshops on how to help save the environment.] The concepts were always
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good, but few people had any suggestions on how to help in our daily lives.] We heard many times (that we
about
"Postma continued.
could grow our own vegetables, but in my tiny garden/ I knew this was not enough."
"The café is a very hands on idea. It is very concrete. We are not only saving goods, but reducing trash.
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Moreover look at my repair people! Almost all of them are retired. They are so happy to be of use to
society again."
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6 The first organized meeting was "an unexpected success," Postma said. She wasn't sure if anyone would
come
To her surprise, local residents showed up early bringing everything from electrical appliances to
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clothes to furniture to musical instruments.
7 The café attracts neighborhood people who have certain skills) There's literally nothing you can't get
fixed at the Repair Café.) Be they clothes, furniture, electronic and electrical appliances, or even
If they be
toys, you
will always find an "expert" (willing to lend a helping hand) Books (on various repair subjects are available.
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People who have nothing to be fixed)can also hang out at the bar. It sounds like a neat community
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initiative where people help each other out, based on their skills)
8 The café, she explains, has another purpose. These days/people in neighborhoods seem to know each
other less and less. Because of the cafe, people get to know their neighbors. It has actually helped to
rebuild relationships within the neighborhood.
Repair Cafe is
9 Held in community centers, auditoriums, and coworking spaces. Repair Cafe is not only practical but
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also a social event. Part of the mission is teaching repair skills (which are lost quickly) so people who bring
in broken items) are asked to be active participants in their repair. People (with nothing to fix can enjoy a
cup of coffee and read from a selection of DIY books or just watch
atch as fixers try their best with an assortment
of broken bicycles, kettles, printers, toys, and holey sweaters,
10 It should be something that is fun to do. Postma said. "It shouldn't be a workplace or a
you drop things off and pick them up later.) I intended to make it a social
Workplace or a shop (where
where you can meet your
neighbors, and you can make new contacts with people from your own neighborhood That makes it fun.”