Last Saturday, a group of Polish students (bottom photo) prepared a meal and activities for the other international students. It was very good food, which was labeled, in Polish, so I didn't quite get the names of the dishes, but everything was very tasty. There was a rice and apple dish, cabbage and sausage (really good), noodles and chicken, pieroges, and deep-fried cinnamon-y things (?). I don't think there was a morsel left at the end. They had also set up some sort of fortune-telling thing that is associated with St. Andrew's Day. They had set up three basins of cold water and had containers of melted wax. The idea is to pour the wax through the hole in a key (supposed to use your wardrobe key, but since they didn't have any, they made some "keys" from cardboard and covered them with foil). Then we took the resulting lump of wax to another table where they had lit several tealights. We each set our lumps of wax between the candles and the wall and looked at the shadow cast on the wall by the wax. This is supposed to tell you about your future. They did admit it requires some imagination. It was a really nice get-together.
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