On returning from Queenstown mine and Moniques next social event began to be prepared. The idea, an International Party where everyone brought some kind of cooking that was typical of their culture. We all went down to the park, with lots of people from The Commercial and some from people's work places and enjoyed the public BBQ (which took an hour to cook some burgers ¬_¬) had a few drinks and generally had an awesome, awesome time!To name some of the dishes present: Scones (by yours truly, about as English as it gets..) Kiwi Salad, Apple Strudel (Germany), Crepes (France), Chinese Pancakes (Um... China..) Kiwi Sausages, Apple Pie (England), Mashed Potato (Canada??) and Dumplings (Taiwan).
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| Antoines Crepe's |
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| Eeyore's Taiwanese Dumplings |
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| Benjamin's Apple Strudel |
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| Monique's Salad |
A couple of days later we discovered it was Nikolai's 25th Birthday (he had kept it VERY quiet!) So we decided to throw him a suprise shindig in the kitchen which was lovely. Decorated the place with ballons etc etc Pat made a Lemon and Orange Spongecake before then insisting that we all play party games such as: Pass the balloon (and say something nice to whoever catches it) and tear the sweet wrapper to see who can make the longest thread. We had an absolute rave on our hands... it was wild.
Work is quietening down now, meaning my job is not EVEN more envied as I can spend much of the day reading out in the sunshine. Lovely jubbly. Although Monique and I continue to find ways of amusing ourselves, the extreme ice creams being one of our favourites! In the evenings we are beginning to go fishing down by the river, this evening a freshly caught eel is being cooked up.. gonna be interesting! I'm also playing a lot more Piano with Jens, after earning a free meal for our "The Entertainer" duet, we're now working on a Four-Handed piece dedicated to his friend Elisa who died of cancer aged 18. It's based around the chord sequence of the last song she heard. (Cue 'awwwwww's) It's going REALLY well, once it's complete we'll film it and put it on youtube or something.
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| International Party! |
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