Cultura, sociedad, Oreo pie, and Ke$ha

The first day of my Culture & Society class (which is half Americans, half Dominicans), my professor told us that we were all going to have a party sometime during the semester. At first I just thought he meant that one day, we'd bring in candy and soda into class, because that's usually what a class party is in the states. If there's a professor present.

However, as the term went on, he kept bringing up this party, and we figured out that this was going to be more than a little shindig on campus with Kola Real and some [terrible] Dominican chocolate. A girl in our class offered up her house, and a few weeks ago we all spent an entire class period deciding what to bring. Most of the Dominicans were going to bring traditional Dominican food, and us Americans planned on opening up the culinary pallets of the Dominicans to wonders such as S'mores, double chocolate cookies, and cupcakes.

This was also unlike a normal class party because we had two people sign up to bring rum and beer. Profe warned us though, that none of us were going to emborracharnos. Claro.

With my lack of oven (so sad) I decided to go with a no-bake triple layer Oreo pie. Finding the ingredients and actually making this pie is another saga for another time, but here's the recipe. I unfortunately did not get a photo of mine.

The party was last night, and it was a lot of fun! Us Americans arrived in three groups... and all of us were there before even the first Dominican arrived. Not surprising. We were outside, for the most part, which is also very unlike any party thrown in the states in late October (I have heard, however, that at least Pittsburgh has been getting some nice warm weather lately? way to go guys. Enjoy it while you can).

We had three rounds of food- appetizers, the main course, and dessert! I don't remember exactly what all of the Dominican dishes were called... okay I don't remember any... but they were good! There was like a corn ball soup and some beans (of course) and chicken and fried stuff. Profe made... something that involved frying corn tortillas and then putting ground beef on them. They weren't tacos though, because the tortillas hardened and weren't shell-like.


David, Profe, and tortillas


Main course.

There was also music and dancing inside the house. I, and most of the Americans, shied away from dancing to the Latin music... however, the second Ke$ha came on, all of us were on the makeshift dance floor. Corny moment: all of us Americans come from completely different parts of the country, and none of us really knew each other before this trip. Some of us didn't even know each other before this party, because we come from different study abroad groups (ISA, CIEE, CIC). Howeverrr... it's hard not to bond with someone when you and everyone around you is screaming "NOW THE PARTY DON'T START TILL I WALK IN." Don't deny it. Even some Dominicans got in on the Ke$ha action.

It was a great time, and I was really glad to spend some more time with the Dominicans in my class. Now today... in about 30 minutes, actually, ISA is throwing us a Halloween party. Still not sure what my costume is going to be...