Language School social events | Christmas 2019
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…where food is”
Hello, English language learners,
We are honoured to have had so many fabulous guests to celebrate with.
It was our first Christmas in our new premises. As we are all about getting people together, we offered quite a few of our friends, family and Blue Noun supporters an invitation to come and celebrate with us.
It is quite simply a delight to have such an amazing space to share – and, by the way, a top-quality, professional kitchen to cook in.
Christmas 2019 was a fantastic start to a whole career of language school social events!
“If you really want to make a friend, go to someone’s house and eat with them… the people who give you their food give you their heart.”
Cesar Chavez,
Latino American civil rights activist
Christmas 2019
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“The people who give you their food give you their heart.”
It turns out that our premises are perfect for having a party!
“You don’t have to cook fancy or complicated masterpieces — just good food from fresh ingredients.”
Julia Child
Language School social events | Christmas 2019
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Language School Social Events | Christmas 2019
Over the week we invited a series of different guests to join us and language learners Axel and Katarzyna (Germany/France) for a full week of meals celebrating Christmas, friendships, great food and wine.
By day, Axel, Katarzyna and I explored the beautiful region of Perth and Kinross – occasionally knuckling down to a bit of work, but to be honest, mostly drinking coffee, chatting and munching our way through an enormous selection of regional, seasonal treats (and the goat cheese Katarzyna brought from Paris).
Language School social event | Christmas 2019
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The Language School Festive Menu
Poached pears
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“The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.”
Samuel Chamberlain
Cooking together
There is so much to learn about our own culture and our guest’s culture by sharing both food and food preparation together.
Personally, learning recipes from around the world is one of my favourite things about travelling: it’s the souvenir I always take home.
Language School social events | Christmas 2019
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“Laughter is brightest in the place where food is.”
Irish Proverb
Want to join our language school for a meal?
We’d love you to!
We put in a ton of effort at Christmas time, because we know that Christmas is a time people would like to spend with their family, but often they can’t.
English learners Esla and Naka | Christmas 2019
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Language School Food and Drink | Further Reading
If you would like to know more about our Language School food and drink philosophy? Read:
Language School Event | Burns Night | The Traditions We Broke – and Why?
A quick note from the author
We began the Blue Noun blog back in 2019, when we called ourselves a ‘language school’ (we now call ourselves a language hub) and we were building up our business completely from scratch.
Our first few months were spent making friends in the community, researching homestay hosts for our language guests and finding out about all the good local places and activities to take our language learning guests.
In 2021 we moved the Blue Noun website to a different platform. We had the option of deleting these old blogs – they are very different form our current, more pedagogic style of posting, but I think they are quite charming to see how our young business grew, turning from a language school run by an artist – into a language hub which really began to focus on coaching artists in English by immersing them in creative environments.