Clubs for entertainment...

There is this one British guy, I will call him Nemo. Nemo came to Azerbaijan some 10 years ago, he is very active, over-energetic, bursting with ideas and most unusally he is also implementing the ideas. Nemo runs several businesses but seems to have also incredible amount of free time. Some while ago he thought of the idea to establish language clubs in Baku. By now there is American, Spanish, Italian, French and German clubs. All of them are run by native speakers and anyone can join in. The participants of course talk/or try to talk in the respective language and can discuss anything, usually matters that are somehow connected to the culture that the language has ties with.

There is also one more unusual club, called the Thursday club, where anyone who is coming to Azerbaijan - tourists, expats, interns, or simply Azeris can join in, meet new people, discuss anything of interest, plan trips together or organize some other events etc. I go to this club and it is fun as different people show up each time and it is quite nice to chat with them.

This is also Nemo's idea to post in the newspapers in order to help out long lost interns who come only for a few months to Azerbaijan. ;o)