International Day

This past Wednesday was International Day at Lingnan, which is where students at the university set up booths representing their country by serving traditional food & some even dance,sing, or play an instrument for everyone :) Us exchange students from the USA did our own booth called "The American Dream" & served sloppy joes, coleslaw, and cake to around 400 people. The night before, a few of us made the sloppy joes & coleslaw, which took us about 5 hours. Boy did my hands hurt after chopping up carrots, celery, peppers, and onions for that long, haha!!!

*Anna G. & I in front of our booth :)

*Me getting the plates ready!

After a few performances, it was time for us to serve our delicious food! We already had a line forming outside of our booth like a half hour before we were allowed to open! We tried to free some space by giving people food early, but we got in trouble for doing so, oops! But, as soon as we opened the booth, it was pure madness for the next hour & a half. Thank goodness we had enough people to help because the line was never ending & I don't think I looked up once for that hour & a half except when some of the locals randomly wanted to take a picture with me, haha! Unfortunately, we ran out of food about a half hour before the event was over, which was fine with me because then I was able to walk around to the other booths: France, Switzerland, Turkey, Mexico, Germany, Denmark, South Korea, Jamaica, India, South Korea, Mainland China, & Japan.

 *Germany!

*Switzerland!

*France!

Even though we ran out of food & scrambled to get everything ready, International Day was a great event & it was really neat to see so many cultures come together in one night :)

*Anna S., Ryan, and I representing the US!