Pangea Party

With the departure of our American friends back in October, we have making an effort to be more social and meet new people.  Being internationals ourselves, we mostly interact with other internationals in and out of work.  So we straightened up the apartment and invited over our eclectic group of acquaintances for an international potluck dinner party.  We asked everyone to bring a representative dish from their home country so we could all share a taste of the world.

We invited a diverse group of people, and in the end the turnout was even better than I would have expected.  We had a total of 18 different countries represented, which meant an amazing spread of food and some really fun conversations.

We had arepas from Columbia, guacamole/salsa/beans to go with chips from California, Hungarian liquor and cakes, tiramisu from Italy, Turkish food from Turkey (yeah, we can’t remember the name), spanakopita from Greece, empanadas from Argentina, muhellabi milk pudding from Jordan, roasted duck from France, chicken nuggets/cookies/cupcakes from USA (us!), sushi from South Korea, potato and carrot stew from the Netherlands, liquor and cake from Estonia, and some filo dough pockets from our one German guest.

All in all, it was really cool to know we are not the only ones trying to figure out our way in a foreign county while learning the language.  Lucky for us, English tends to be the medium for most foreigners!