With several weeks of new arrivals I've been enjoying having people over for meals and getting to know them. This week the meal was different: for one thing there were more people - the IBEO students.
It's been a bit of a tradition that each term we have a dinner at someone's home. The Ashmores usually did it before they left, and this is the first time I've had everyone at my place (IMS students have been twice). It took a fair bit of organizing with the other work that seems to be piling up lately, but 'a good time was had by all'.
At least I think so ... introducing them at this cooler time to 'traditional winter Australian food' (pumpkin soup) and Indian food (a lamb curry with a rice pilau) may have been ambitious and maybe they were just polite... Bibiane brought a lovely fruit salad served in a large watermelon carved out for dessert, great since I hadn't got that far in preparing with my hectic week.
Because I didn't have enough chairs for us all to sit at the dining table I rearranged the furniture and we sat in the lounge, using the table for serving. None of the other teachers could make it, and one student had a family crisis but the rest of us enjoyed our time together.
