Challenge Your Food View

In AIESEC, we have these sessions at conferences and general meetings called “Challenge Your World View” which pretty much are sessions focused on world issues, thinking outside of our “bubble” and learning new things about a culture, people and way of life. 

Right now we have an intern from Hungary here and he offered to make us a meal.  He mentioned Cherry Soup once in passing, and most of us weren’t too enthusiastic on the idea.  Last night he got all the ingredients for the soup and made us some sour cherry soup and we challenged our food view.

It was actually surprising good.  The first couple bites were sour, but as my taste buds adjusted to the sourness, it was pretty good.  You’re suppose to stir sour cream into it.

Later that night we headed to Fort St. Cafe for their Trivia Night.  After the first round, we were in the middle of the pack, but in the second round, there were two categories that we did really well in.  One, called Hellophone, was just a bunch of really easy questions, but if you got them all right, then you would get an extra 5 points.  Between the 6 of us on our team, we managed to get all the right answers.  Another category, Globally Challenged, had three points for each question.  We had to name the capital city, the river that runs through the city and whether or not the country was a monarchy.  We got them all right.  Yay for AIESECers! (Of the 6 capital cities, I’ve been to 4 of the capitals – Rome, Paris, Washington DC and Vienna – the 2 I haven’t been to were Baghdad and Cairo – but I would love to go to Cairo!)  We ended up coming in 2nd and won a $45 gift certificate to a record store ^_^

Definitely a great night!