International Dinner at Queen Margaret's

I have been teaching Japanese to a Thai girl since last October. She goes to (or rather stays at) Queen Margaret's School just outside the city of York, a very posh girls' boarding school (The teacher-student ratio is an amazing 1:7 in this school, which looks after just over 350 students)! Today, I had an honour to be invited to an informal dinner which celebrates the School's cultural diversity.

The building of the School was originally built as a country house for some gentleman or aristocrat, and today's venue was what used be a ball room, where ladies and gentlemen gathered for feasts over champagne and laughter. Nowadays, the room is clammed with not-so-difficult books like Lonely Planets and Bridget Jones' Diary; and today, it was crowded with teenage girls and some teachers and private tutors of the School. Most of the food provided were cooked by participants and were indeed very good.

Bas, a Thai girl with white T-Shirt, made an excellent rice noodles and contributed to a screen presentation about the cultural diversity of the school (photo on the lest). I felt quite proud of my student indeed! But I was impressed as much by the interior of the ball-room as by all we had this evening! You can see from the photos how extragavant it is for a library!