-Culture party-

Hello.

Today, I’m going to write about a culture party that I attended today.

Last Friday, I had a meeting with my language partner. Language partner is one program of Intensive English Program of University of Manitoba. Intensive English Program in shorten, IEP provides the English speaker to each student who wants to speak with English speaker. My language partner‘s name is Ann. Ann asked me while the meeting, if I want to join a culture party and showed me the e-mail. It said that we’ll represent our culture to the other people who come from different country. It reminded me the presentation that I did during the class of IEP and I felt really nervous. I also had a plan already, but I chose to give it a shot, because I thought that I’ll never have such opportunities. I have just 2 months left to stay in Winnipeg, so I wanted to do anything that I can do.

My choice was right. The party was really fun. There are 14 people including my language partner, her husband and me. I met people who come from China, Nigeria, Iran, Africa, Chili, and of course Canada. Almost of them are University students of University of Manitoba. The woman who comes from Chili was the IEP student, so when I saw her, I surprised. We all had a presentation about our culture such as dance or singing. I did about “Origami” that is Japanese traditional paper holding. I taught how to make crane. It was really hard to explain. Actually I taught to some IEP students when we were making Christmas gift for IEP Christmas party, but at that time I couldn’t teach well. This time was a kind of revenge for me. It was really tough. I needed to show each steps to every single person, because just the words couldn’t give specific information of the shapes. I was sweating very much. I was so nervous, but everyone was really kind. They said to me that I did well so I felt relieved.

 After that, we had supper together. We all brought some traditional food and eat together. There were many kind of food, Guacamole that is avocado paste to dip by chips from Mexico, Chapati that is fried bread from Kenya and so on. All of them were really delicious. When Ann asked me to go back home, it was already 10:30 p.m. I felt like “Already!? “. I had really nice time there. Thank you Ann for taking me to the party. Thank you god to give me such a nice language partner. Next Saturday, I’ll go to French Canadian Festival with Ann. I’m looking forward it :)

-Diana-