Fellow Rotary scholar Paul Goldberg held a get together at his residencia on Cerro Placeres (Pleasure Hill). His good friend and proprietor of the residencia, Miguel Angel, is a former chef–which didn’t hurt in preparing food for approx. 20 people. Friends from the university came and invited friends of their own, along with Rotaractors and their friends.
One of the Rotaractors staying in our district right now, David, is from Baja California, and he rooms with about 4 other Mexicans. They were somehow roped into cooking for the event, much to my delight!
It was a non traditional Easter Dinner by U.S. standards: quesadillas, pico de gallo with chips, slow cooked beans (frijoles) and seasoned rice were made along with other dishes. Of course no Mexican dinner would be complete without meat, which was supplied with seasoned chicken and beef.
To take from Paul’s Blog:
“ It was a good opportunity to gather with the international students and the Rotaract club members. We were about twenty in all and represented eight different countries, three different continents, and five different languages. Despite all the great cultural differences, we all had one thing in common…. an Easter celebration with a Mexican feast prepared by a few exchange students from Mexico!”
It was a nice gesture of Paul to organize the dinner, and I certainly appreciated being around friends on the Holiday. Since I have a large and fairly close-knit family, I hate spending the holidays without them!
See the picture album for this dinner here.
Easter Dinner with friends in Valparaíso
