australian food and movies
babe might be an australia movie, but its hard to tell by watching it. i kind of feel like it would have been better to choose a different movie for the last session of the "australian movie seminar", but what other movie would get 50 people to turn up, more than twice the number that had come to the previos 3 sessions.
it was a pretty good day all in all. the only hiccups were that we had to deal with our prefectural office being turned into a hospital for the day as a TV drama was being filmed in the lobby, and that it is not agood idea to cook kangaroo on a bbq underneath a smoke alarm.
we prepared most of the food the day before, lamingtons, scones, hot cross buns, spinach dip, zuccinni slice, anzac biscuits, pavlova, vegemite sandwiches, etc
everything worked well except for the lamingtons, which turned out as flat as a biscuit instead of a nice fluffy sponge cake.. dont leave 2 men to make such a tricky cake ever again, but tom had anotehr go at them once we got home and they turned out a lot better as you will be able to see in the pictures.
on the day we had nearly 50 people turn up. i was really happy cause it would have been a waste of a lot of good food if less than that came.
we had to wait around for a 30 mins in teh morning until the filming in the lobby got out of the way. but luckily cause we had booked in the theatre first we got priority over most things. they had to be out of our way by no later than 10.30.
after the movie we moved to the cafeteria where the japanese ladys from my office and tom had set up all the food. we had two bands playing, one played some aussie music for us too. bit of waltzing matilda and botany bay type folk songs in a dixiland jazz style...
it all finished up around 3pm when all the food was gone. i still have too many eggs left over so i will try and make another pavlova for the office tonight. on friday about 6 people will be moviing to otehr offices and we will be getting new people so i thought it might be nice to do as a going away thing. i have to move desks too so i am not happy about that. i just got this one all nice and organized...
anyways, back to work...
now its time to think of how to make my next australian event work. the next one will be a childrens art exhibition showing creations from australia and japan.
