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FEATURES Wednesday, March 5, 2003 - Page 7 Getting A World View at the International Dinner dishes, she heard no Seyoum and Melat Garedew, and STACI GEORGE complaints. a four-person Nigerian skit. Ani, Atsittam Commentary Editor After dinner, sev- who played the King and father of eralInternational Club tWO, said he made up the skit to fit No one went away hungry, students took part in different themes, incorporate love, unentertained, or uneducated about the fashion show mod- and include human feelings. other cultures at the International eling a variety of In their closing remarks, Cheek Dinner held Sunday, March 3. clothes from around and Ani thanked the guests for The International Club had the world, including a coming, the students for cooking, originally planned the event for typical woman's dress and Bilt Spence, advisor of the in- Sunday, February 16 but the record from China, the ternational Club, for his help in amount of snow postponed the "kirta" from India, and planning the event. event, which has been going on for African skins with Like other International Club 30 plus years. prints unique to a par- members and dinner guests, senior Seniors Kristina Cheek and ticularcountry. Yolanda Hill had a wonderful time. Ifeanyi Ani co-hosted the night's The night's Summing up the event, she said event. resrtvtes continued it was a night of "Great food, great During opening remarks, they with poetry reading by fun, and great people." 'Promised the dinner guests-.-a senior Mohindra mixture of about 130 McDaniel students, faculty, and community pian dance, singing, poetry reading, very good-very diverse. from Ramphal, an Ethiopian dance per- members- an array of activies, and a Nigerian skit. sweet to spicy," said senior Nadja formed by freshmen Hanah including a fashion show. Ethic- With the night's theme being Werner about the ,_--w __ "---- ......_"C;;:",...llu..,,.reDigest." it had a lot to live various dishes she selected to eat. On both ends Junior Ina of the Forum, long Puleri, president tables held a wide array of the lnterna- of vegetarian and non- tional Club, said vegetarian dishes that that putting this students in the Interna- event on was a lot tional Club had cooked. of hard work, es- These were pecially when ev- traditional recipes from erything had to be their home countries, replanned on ac- including France, count of the snow. Nepal, Ethiopia, Some had al- Ukraine. and Greece. ready prepared Italian lasagna, Chi- their dishes on Sat- nese sticky rice with urday before it pork, Greek salad, and was postponed and a South Eastern version had to do it all of burbeque chicken again two weeks were among the later rnulititude of dishes to As Puleri choose from. asked random "I thought it was people about the Cafe style coffee now in the comfort of home Do you know add 1/3 cup of ground beans for do not boil the milk. Pour the milk do not boilthe milk For each serv- SwffWriler every I cup of cold water. 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