We are the Esperanto speakers who say "Ni!"

[esperantomobilo]

We are a team of six Esperanto speakers from the United States (amuzulo, elinjo, Loren) and Russia (Diana, Libera, Oleg) who decided to buy the Esperantomobilo and travel through the American continent teaching Esperanto. You can also read about our adventures starting in June 2004

Comments

[e_novosti]

En la unua alineo de la angla versio estas teksto "vi povas legi pri viaj aventuroj" -- kaj devas esti "niaj", cxu ne?

Sukcesojn en la afero!

Sl.

[esperantomobilo]

Dankon, mi korektis!

Route?

[openmynd]

Is the route set already? I see the map, but I see what seem to be glaring problems with the stops

Re: Route?

[esperantomobilo]

These things are just there to make our page look pretty. ;-) No actually, I wanted to have some kind of idea of where we'd go based on the clubs at http://www.esperantoland.org/grupoj/mapo.php?mapo=6 I thought it would give me a good foundation to start from because these clubs are active enough to put up a page there. I might put up another more realistic map tomorrow...

Re: Route?

[openmynd]

Ah, OK. :-) But don't concentrate on clubs, neccesarily. There are plenty of places that don't have an Esperanto presence which could benefit from one. Of course, I guess it depends on your focus: those already interested in Esperanto, or those who might like to learn a bit to see what it's like.

Re: Route?

[amuzulo]

Well, I hope you still realize we're in the very early phases of planning our tour. Right now we're starting to get together a list of cities and local contacts which we will later put on the map and then plan out the most effective route as well as timing for various Esperanto and foreign language teaching events. We started brainstorming possible routes using these clubs because we assume that we will most likely have the most local support in these areas. We're pretty sure we won't go into any city if we have no local support there. However, if we find just one competent local person (even if they don't speak Esperanto) who is excited and enthusiastic about the idea, we'll probably go there.

Course?

[tandrews]

BTW, what kind of course are you thinking of doing (e.g. how long, how many sessions, how much info covered, etc)?

Re: Course?

[tandrews]

Sorry! Perhaps I should have read all this a bit more carefully. It seems that most of my questions are answered here:
http://www.esperantomobilo.org/eventoj.html

Re: Course?

[esperantomobilo]

No problem. We don't yet have listed there that we plan to offer two courses: one for people who know absolutely nothing about Esperanto and another one for beginners/intermediate speakers. Since we have a team of six people, we'll probably have two people teaching the first class, two in the second, and another two will travel around the city giving lectures about Esperanto. These will probably pair off into American/Russian pairs to give a more international feel as well as having an American available in case problems arise.

[starshinespirit]

Fantastic, looking forward to seeing you in Toronto. I've sent the link to the President and Vice-President of Esperanto-Rondo de Toronto http://esperanto.ca/toronto/

Hopefully by the time you get here, I'll know a few more Esperanto words :))

Good luck with the trip...

[esperantomobilo]

Great, I look forward to getting a message from their President and Vice-President about what kind of local help they can provide. I've visited the Toronto Esperanto club and it was very friendly and helpful. I look forward to visiting again!

Meetup.com

[tandrews]

It would be great if there was some way to spread the word about this to the Esperanto Meetup community. There seem to be a lot of isolated, new Esperanto speakers that might like to be involved. At the very least, you might want to contact those people that have left their email addresses in their personal descriptions.

Re: Meetup.com

[esperantomobilo]

Great idea, although not many people left their addresses. Would you like to help us in this way by collecting them and sending them to us? We'd really appreciate it!