Around two weeks ago I was able to drive up to White Salmon, Washington to spend the night at a Country officer's house in my district. The current inbound students from Finland, Denmark and Russia as well as the outbounds and a rebound (who went to Finland last year for exchange) were all able to stay the night together for a Country Dinner.
We stayed at the Country Officer for Denmark's house; and it was a BLAST! Unfortunately not all of the exchange students were able to come; but it was so much fun! We all arrived after a long two hour drive, and once we were there the Danish Exchange students made Danish Open-Faced Sandwiches; which were SO good! I wasn't too excited to try the rye bread, and the first bite was kind of weird...but after I ate a few sandwiches, it was really good! So, it is good to try new things. :)
We made a menu with the rest of the Inbounds and Outbounds to make dishes from our countries, and then we all carpooled to Hood River to go to the grocery store to pick up the ingredients. For the Finnish dishes we made Makaroonilaatikko and for dessert I made Kiisseli (which is like a thick fruit soup.). The Danish dishes were Danish meatballs and Christmas red cabbage, and then we also had a Russian salad with pineapple and corn in it. (Which was actually good!)
It felt like Thanksgiving, cooking in the kitchen together! We had MORE than enough food for everyone, and it was fun to cook everything together. After we ate dinner, we started to make desserts; which were Finnish Kiisseli and a Finnish inbound made Munkki, which were really good sugary doughnuts. (I couldn't stop eating the raw dough! They were SO good!) And the Danish inbounds made Danish pancakes (which were a lot like crepes.)
It was really fun to socialize while we were all making the desserts, because we decided to put on Danish and Finnish rap and pop songs. So, it was fun to listen to music from our host countries and hear all of the inbounds sing along.
It was really funny though, because I recognized one of the songs! The Finnish inbound, rebound and I started to randomly start singing, "Frontside Ollie" which is a Finnish song by, Robin (Who is pretty much a Finnish version of Justin Beiber.).
The Outbounds got our blazers; which is cool because we were the first to get them. We also got our first night questions in our host language for our host families. (Which is basically questions like, "What should I call you?" and all of the basic questions to break the ice on the first night in your new home.). I also got some language lessons in Finnish like how to conjugate things; which was SUPER helpful!
Later that night, we watched the previous Rotary Youth Exchange talent show from last year, and then later the boys played karaoke. (Which was hilarious).
Over all, the Scandinavian Weekend was great! I just wish that I took pictures. :(
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