American BBQ

The US Embassy has a program where they try to explain american culture by giving presentations about various parts of our culture, such as vacation, games, and in my case, American BBQ. A few volunteers and I put together a presentation where we explained what american BBQ's were like, and some of the games that we play at BBQs. I did a power point explaining that there were many different uses of the word barbecue, noun, verb, and adjective. it was kinda hard to do not because material was lacking, but rather because I had to put up pictures of yummy yummy food that I haven't had in a long time, nor would I have for a long time to come. 

One of our business volunteers, Tom, managed to go to the newly opened Mcdonalds and get them to donate 50 hamburgers and buns, and we set up a grill outside of the library that we were presenting at and had the georgian participants make their own burgers, with lettuce, onion, and tomato. We also had some country time lemonade made up for them to drink. All in all it was a big hit. The news even came out to do a short story about it. My host family saw it and for awhile thought I was famous. Not for volunteering, not for helping the country become more developed, but for food. I suppose there are worse ways to be known though, so I'll take it. (news video below) 

Here's some pictures from the event too. it was a good day. and for once it didn't rain! (oh, it's been raining almost every day here this summer. A stark contrast to last year, where it was hot and dry the whole time). 

Me presenting a slide about good ol' NC BBQ. 

Group picture 

Tom Ladek, Suzanne Ladek, and myself making the lemonade

Suzanne Ladek explaining condiment usage