Spanish Class Pool Party

On Friday I hosted a pool party for my Spanish Class

Una celebración de las frutas de verano

Bienvenido, la clase de español de Glena

Fruta Fresca

Sopa fría de arándanos

Panini bocadillos

Batata fritas

Sangría de Glena

Mango Italian Ice

Verano de pudín de las bayas

I made two salsas, one with Mango, tomatoes, onion, and cilantro, the other with tomatoes, onions, cilantro, jalapeno pepper, and fresh mint from the garden.

The very colorful table with fresh fruit

The Peruvian flag in honor of our teacher, Glena and her husband, Raul.

No, that is not Glena in the pink dress.

Unfortunately it was a chilly cloudy New England  summer day and you can see the guests looking wistfully at the pool.

Actually some of the men did go into the pool and seemed to enjoy it immensely.  The temperature of the pool water was 10 degrees higher than the air temperature.

Our class members and teacher are very creative people, so I asked them to bring some samples of their arts and crafts.

Glena brought samples of her painting and quilt making, Paul brought several of his paintings, Sandy brought beautiful ceramics she had made, and I displayed some of my needlework pillows and tapestries.

Sean brought brought three lovely paintings.

This is Glena's painting which is a depiction of a photograph of my garden pond which I had posted on Facebook.

The main course was make-it-yourself panini sandwhiches, from a selection of:

chiabatti bread

focacia rolls



fresh mozarella cheese

provolone cheese

basil

roasted red peppers

prosciutta ham

honey baked ham

salami

mortadella

Here are Sandy and Roberta building their sandwiches.

Glena and some of her students.

I was very pleased that everyone seemed to enjoy the party.