Italy Journal
Thursday, October 19, 2012
Dinner Society
This has turned into a week of parties. Tonight, we hosted
another Dinner Society event with 16 people here for a potluck meal. Peter used
the ravioli that Nina and I bought early this morning. We had to borrow an
extra pasta pot from Sarah to make one pot of 2-minute tiny ravioli and the
other with the larger 3-4 minute ravioli. Then, the tiny ones were mixed with
ragu, and the larger ones had a pesto sauce. Great job, Peter! Although we
never tell people what to bring, all parts of the meal were covered to
perfection.
The Dinner Society events are sponsored by the University
Student Union. All students are invited to attend or host a group. Each of the
hosts decides the arrangement and design for the meal, and the university
assigns the students to their host’s location randomly…sort of. I think they
may look at where people live and/or requests to be with a certain host. We
took the liberty of adding a favorite professor and a few other people who were
without plans for the evening…no problem.
We had a lovely mixture of nationalities and ages, and I
made a list of the participants in advance to help everyone learn the names
quickly and remember them later. I expected that some of the undergraduate
students would not be able to speak English because their classes are taught in
Italian, but no one had any problem communicating.
Thanks, everyone, for a wonderful time!!!
Colleen
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