This activity was created for the IB students to get together during a lunch break and celebrate coming together after the Summer holidays. The theme was Multicultural Foods so we were each given the task of creating something from our home countries. Of course the first thing I thought to make was a Tortilla de Patata, or as the English may call it: Spanish Omelette. This was useful for CAS because I had increased my awareness of my own strengths and areas for growth whilst cooking the traditional recipe. I also considered the ethical implications of my actions such as considering allergies people may have and made sure to write what it contained on note beside it to make sure no one that was allergic to the ingredients and took it by accident and became involved in an international project as this activity opened up a diversity of cultures. By participating in this activity I became an inquirer, knowledgeable, a thinker, principled, open-minded, caring, a risk-taker and balanced.
My aims were to create a delicious dish to represent the typical cuisine of my country to my peers and find out about my peers' cultures as well.This was a challenge for me because I wanted to make a perfect tortilla to represent my country and had a lot of pressure to do everything perfectly.
This activity was CREATIVITY because I made the recipe in my own way, not identical to the typical recipe one might find on the internet. This is also SERVICE because I made it for other people to enjoy and to show them about my culture.
Overall this was a very enjoyable activity. My tortilla was very successful and we all exchanged dishes and tried all of the different typical dishes of the large variety of cultures. I managed to meet all of my aims and learning outcomes and have a very delicious buffet whilst also listening to the music of different cultures and finding out about them.
