National dishes, birthdays and football
Before everything else - one promised photo in front of central museum of Almaty. After all, a pretty impressive islam-type building.
Ok, so lets get on with the interesting stuff - Peteris (and Ulrik) birthday and the national dish evening at the same time. Well, what can I say shortly - it really was probably the best evening I had here in Kazakhstan so far! It was so much fun from the very beginning, everyone was in the kitchen, everyone preparing something, we also had some background music playing, the atmosphere was so live there, and so many smells and nice things to see! In total there were basically all the exchange students (20 or so), some 10 KISA members (mainly girls) and a few locals from the dormitories. Here is how the preparation part looked like, when everyone was still cooking:
What is more, my “Saltibarsciai” soup, which I actually made without Peteris, because he was in volleyball training was really succesful! I am happy for myself that I managed to do such a dish, as I am not a very good cook and only know how to make pasta, omlet and chicken fillet. Although I admit that I got a lot of help from local girls, who didn’t have what to do thus were very willing to help - with cutting everything and so on. But still, I was the project manager :) Finally, almost everyone really enjoyed the soup! I received a lot of compliments about it, including a few joke offers to be a husband, cause a man knowing how to make such a dish is really valuable :) Here is a photo of 2 kazakh girls trying out the soup (Bika and Demili):
Don’t want to waste space here showing what others did, but I will be able to share photos when I come back. In general, other people also made very tasty dishes - Rufina made a very tasty Kazakh meat pie, Kinga did a hungarian type beef meat (troskinys) with sauce, Koreans did a very interesting soup, Hong-kong people - boiled egg sandwiches with some sweet add-ons, Ulrik from denmark did wonderful small cold sanwitches with all kinds of add-ons, like shrimps, lemon, tuna etc. Finally, americans wouldn’t be americans if they wouldn’t have done hamburgers and hot-dogs. :) Though I admit the hamburgers were really tasty, despite their simplicity. What I liked the most? Probably the Hong-kong sandwiches, they were like a very tasty desert. I should ask how they are made exactly, the process itself is very interesting to watch - they take the prepared sandwich with sticks and then put it straight to boiling water for just some moments, and then take out.
After everyone prepared their dish we finished up trying everything out in the study room, even though not much was left, as we were eating each other’s dishes already in the kitchen. :) However, an important part was still yet to come - congratulating Peteris and Ulrik with their birthdays! We had 4 cakes in total with candles for that occasion, 2 of them bought by me and Kinga under the name of all exchange students :) Was really fun time. After most of the people left, we (me, Peteris, Charlses, Simon, Ulrik, Sundziun and a few locals from american football team) continued partying in our block with some beer and vodka. :)
Just before the end of this long entry, I want to add 2 photos from our american football training - finally Simon (our Polish neighbour) came and made some photos there. In the first photo you can see a very funny guy Alman, who makes jokes all the time, but you wouldn’t want to meet him on the football field in front of you very much. At least I don’t :) In the second photo you can just see some action going on. Make a notice that we really have BIG guys there, so its quite tough :) I will continue going to these trainings until serious basketball trainings will start, which should be in about 3 weeks. Take care!
Rodyk draugams
O tu, žiūriu, ne iš kelmo spirtas.
Hey, Marius!
It's great to see that there are some photos :):) And I should admit that beautiful ones :) And now you seem (it sounds so from reading the blog) that you are again satisfied with the life in KZ :) That's also good!
P.S I owe u thanks, you know for what ;) (hug)
Geras, as irgi noreciau isbandyti am.futbola :) Patys kolkas tai tik futbola kartais pazaidziam kol oras geras, veliau ieskosim krepsini kur zaist.
Deja jau savaite sergu tai isvis nelabai gerai man… Tikiuosi greit pasveikt, nes kolkas net valgyt sunku :/
Ir mano kompas sugedo tai nelabai blogo iseina atnaujint.
Hey!
Its nice to hear from you! I have just one suggestion for your football trainings: Trust your INTUITION! :)
kaip supratau, tai virtuvėje esi su ale kepure kairėje, ane? :) fainai.
na skutek zacierania sie granic posrod zakresami mediow, tradycyjna ksiazka jest wydawana na papierze, jednakze niekiedy towarzysza jej materialy audiowizualne, zawarte na plytach jednakowoz kasetach, a ksiazka elektroniczna sposrod natury laczy tekst z multimediami, co zawdzieczac jest dozwolone jednolitosci elektronicznego mass-medium.
bez watpienia role e-ksiazek wolno bylo nadawac wielu systemom pomocy w programach komputerowych. Najwazniejszy byl w tym miejscu oczywiscie bardzo dobry WinHelp, wypromowany w 16-bitowych Windows, wykorzystujacy bezplatny kompilator Microsoftu.
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