Sunday, January 21, 2007
::international friendship group (ifg) gathering/biblestudy/potluck::
last friday, i went for an ifg gathering at dorcas' house. i had a hard time making my way there - due to some miscommunication with michelle (a sporean who's a mgs teacher back home and is currently doing her masters in science education at ubc). it really didnt help that it was so cold - while i had to wait alone in the dimly lit busstop because i missed the stop:( it was quite scary. but much thanks to the other half's mum who got me a hand-held alarm, which i was holding all that while! i didnt know it would be that useful:)
all was worth it when i finally reached the place! i met a lot of international students and friends there and i enjoyed getting to know them and our interaction too:) it was quite an exotic bunch of people - from argentina, japan, korea, brazil, germany and america. it was inevitable and really no surprise that our conversations included discussions on soccer, maradona and world cups. haha. it was my 1st time joining this group gathering and it turned out much better than i expected! even though the biblestudy covered very basic biblical ideas like how God created man, i benefited from the discussion too! in genesis 2:21-22, God "took one of Adam's ribs and closed up the place from which He had taken it. then the Lord God made a woman from the rib". i just found out that it has been scientifically/biologically proven that men do have 1 lesser rib-bone as compared to women! it's not that i didnt think that it would be true, but i am just amazed that it has actually been scientifically proven!
frankly, after coming back to van, i felt God's calling for me to help out in this initiative. seeing how smoothly everything went (save for my initial misadventure) and when michelle told me that God had sent me to help them after gil left, it was then that everything seemed to fall into place. her encouraging words really meant a lot to me:)
::ivcf-ifg reunion potluck::
last saturday, i went with hiroko and saori for the reunion potluck organized by ivcf-ifg at the international house. saori and i had gone for the previous one that was held last october. it was great to see everyone after so long - to getting to know more international students too:) but no thanks to my taiwanese friend michael, who very honestly told me that i had gained weight from the last time we met:( boohoo. anyway hiroko and saori came over to my place and we cooked japanese pork curry for the potluck! we also brought chewy (and of course yummy) chocolate chip cookies!
the 3 of us busy cooking and preparing the dish in my kitchen! the aroma of the jap curry was so tantalizing that we all got very very hungry. saori was caught in the act - of munching on my yanyan biscuits:) heh.
us at our table - we look very happy coz we finally got our food!! our table was the last in order to get our main course from the buffet table. that explained why by the time we got there, there were no more pork in our jap curry:(
although the variety of food was significantly lesser and less exotic as compared to the last reunion potluck, there was still quite a spread and the food was still very good:)
in compensation for being last in line to getting our main course, our table was the first to get our desserts:) yayy! oh yes, before we started on the desserts, the january babies (including saori and your truly) were also invited to cut a cake and everyone sang the bday song for us! it was such a sweet gesture! (p.s: in case you are wondering, this plate of desserts was shared by the 3 of us - i didnt finish everything by myself - although that would not be a surprise actually. haha)
our table - i enjoyed meeting new people at our table! it was great that janet (sitting opposite saori) came to sit with us too! it was good catching up with her. i missed her!
the 3 of us busy cooking and preparing the dish in my kitchen! the aroma of the jap curry was so tantalizing that we all got very very hungry. saori was caught in the act - of munching on my yanyan biscuits:) heh.
us at our table - we look very happy coz we finally got our food!! our table was the last in order to get our main course from the buffet table. that explained why by the time we got there, there were no more pork in our jap curry:( 
although the variety of food was significantly lesser and less exotic as compared to the last reunion potluck, there was still quite a spread and the food was still very good:)
in compensation for being last in line to getting our main course, our table was the first to get our desserts:) yayy! oh yes, before we started on the desserts, the january babies (including saori and your truly) were also invited to cut a cake and everyone sang the bday song for us! it was such a sweet gesture! (p.s: in case you are wondering, this plate of desserts was shared by the 3 of us - i didnt finish everything by myself - although that would not be a surprise actually. haha)
our table - i enjoyed meeting new people at our table! it was great that janet (sitting opposite saori) came to sit with us too! it was good catching up with her. i missed her!