GMBA Christmas Potluck Event

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撰文者／GMBA辦公室趙懿德

聖誔佳節本該是個普天同慶的日子，可惜最近疫情又趨嚴峻，加上期末考、論文口試和final presentations，的確需要一個可以讓人身心靈放鬆的活動啊啊啊~~~！

感謝GMBA學生會於12月26日舉辦了GMBA Christmas Potluck Event，讓同學可以稍為輕鬆一下。所謂的Potluck，就是主辦方提供場地，並請參加者自備食物來分享的一種活動，在GMBA，Potluck又更為特別，因為同學為大家準備有家鄉特色的菜餚：美國的代表有火雞和蜜汁火腿、香港的代表有干炒牛河和燒味拼盤、泰國的代表有青木瓜沙拉，當然少不了台灣的熱炒和紅豆餅等… 族繁不及備載。

吃吃喝喝以外，活動的高潮就是—交換禮物！同學精心的準備了「好禮物」和「惡作劇禮物」各一份，禮物打開的一刻，可以從同學眼裡看到驚喜、歡樂、傻眼和白眼等各種表情。「好禮物」有些同學送了耳機、喇叭、桌遊、抱枕和毛毯等，而「惡作劇禮物」則相當精彩，而且大家都有個共識：包裝越精美華麗的越雷，有一整顆的新鮮高麗菜、一盒皮蛋、課程的二手textbook和一盒精美包裝循環利用的塑~膠~袋~！

活動最後以美味的聖誕蛋糕作為總結，同學在歡樂的氣氛中得到暫時的壓力釋放！

Jingle bell~~ Jingle bell~~ Jingle OH MY GOD! With the increasing number of reporting COVID cases, its really hard to sing along happily.

Glad that we have GMBA Student Council, who organized GMBA Christmas Potluck event on Dec 26 which was lots of fun! For it’s a Potluck event, people bring along their beloved food, and some are the famous cuisine from their home country! Some examples were: Honey baked ham and turkey from the States, Fried flat noodle with beef and BBQ pork and roasted chicken platter from Hong Kong, Spicy papaya salad from Thailand, and of course Taiwan representative Stir fry and Red bean Taiyaki!

After we are fed, then we had the most exciting exchange gifts! Everyone prepared both “Angel gift” and “Devil gift”. The angel gifts are super nice! We have earphones, amplifier, blankets, lovely cushions, and much more! While the angel gifts brought us warm, the devil gifts gave us more fun! A whole fresh cabbage, a box of “thousand-year egg”, and used textbook, and a well-packaged recycle plastic bags. Everyone just can’t stop the laughter!

With all the smiles and happiness from the event, we all forgot the pressures and gloomy and got recharged for all the upcoming challenges!