This week was so incredibly busy. On Wednesday Jerry from
Ben & Jerry’s ice cream came to Lewis & Clark and spoke in the chapel
about entrepreneurship and starting a business. He was a very funny man and it
was really cool for me to be able to hear him talk because as you may know they
started their business in Burlington, Vermont and I myself am also from
Vermont! The chapel was basically full with students and faculty who wanted to
hear him speak and afterward they gave away free Ben & Jerry’s ice cream in
an ice cream social sort of event. It was great.
I also had a lot of Spanish Club events that happened this
week. Thursday was the Residential Language Communities Open House. Every year
people who want to live in the language communities can come and visit the
language apartments in February and ask any questions they may have about the
apartments as well as get a tour around to see where they may be living the
upcoming year.
Gardenia, the Language assistant and my roommate from Peru
made some incredibly delicious food for the open house. She made some homemade
guacamole, a type of mashed potatoes, corn with cheese on sticks and a type of
Venezuelan food called tequeños. Tequeños are basically fried puff pastry with
cheese in the middle. I don’t know how that sounds but they were incredibly
delicious especially when dipped in the guacamole.
Because all the other language apartments were also having
their open houses on the same day, a few of them shared their food with us as
well. The French apartment made wonderful Madeleines and the German apartment
made German meatballs as well as really delicious pretzels. I love living in the Spanish apartment because
I am able to be fully immersed in the Spanish language and culture as well as
try new Hispanic foods and recipes. Not only that but other language apartments
surround me and I am able to also learn from them and share food with them.
It’s wonderful.
Hope you all had a wonderful week!
Bis später!
Hasta luego!
See you later!