International Dinner
The Russians students brought caviar with them from home for all to sample.
The evening's meal consisted of traditional Russian dishes prepared by the visiting students and Ethiopian dishes.
The Russian college students borrowed some traditional costumes from family members back home for the evening's event.
President White and his wife Chris were good sports, as always. They demonstrated the proper way to eat the Ethiopian food with traditional bread.
Vadim Dulmaev shows Jim Leuck '09 (President of Wabash's Russian Club) some of the Russian artifacts the students brought along with them about their native country.
Chris Dony '09, an international student from Belgium, performs with Desmond Risper '07.
Wabash's jazz quartet, on Saturday night a trio, helped provide entertainment. From left, Risper, Austin Sommers, and Haris Amin.
The Russian students are not performers by nature but presented two traditional Russian folk songs in good spirits.
Veronica Borshcheva, in front, is spending a year at Wabash in the language intern program. She holds a doctorate and teaches English at Saratov Socio-Economic University where the students study.
The Russians brought small gifts to share with the more than 150 in attendance. Here, Dulmaev looks on while Erlen 'Eric' Troshin reads one of the questions about Russia. Any one answering one of the fairly simple questions won a prize. Example: What is the longest river in Russia?
These events are less about the food and music and much more about friendship. At the end of the night Wabash students invited the Russians to gather for a group photo.