I forgot to take my nice camera again. I’m so sorry it won’t happen again will happen lots of times in the future.

Anyway, yesterday saw the annual “World Food Festival” invade a few of the university buildings, and all the societies representing various nations got together in a whirl of cooking oil and cardboard stalls to sell their delicious cultural wares.

Once I had entered the hall, it became apparent that overwhelming customers into buying food was the order of the day. Basically, the stalls were all so cramped together that everyone had to take fight their way along a set path, which wound it’s way in front of every stall in the room.

The Japan Society, for whom I am now a committee member and thus wield terrible powers for, were out in force selling Sushi, Yakisoba and Karaage. They seemed to be doing rather well, but I was on a tight budget so I decided to try some food I’d never sampled before. Or at least, I planned to. As I was making my way around the hall, I was leapt on by a member of the Chinese society, who sold me a fortune cookie for 50p. Cheap, you may think, except the thing had no fortune in it. I’m not a huge believer in luck or fate, but that can’t be good, right?

Having absolutely no fortune saddened me, as I was hoping for a good omen relating to my upcoming midterm examinations (tomorrow!). Disheartened but not yet defeated, I fought my way further around the hall.

It was then that I discovered the festival continued into another room. This room contained, amongst other stalls, the Korean society stall. They were serving Kimchi, which is a traditional dish consisting of spicy vegetables. It also happens to be the most delicious food ever, and for 99p it was a steal.

So there you have it. Sadly I didn’t have much time to spend at the festival as I had to run home and study lots of difficult words for Monday’s exam, but I would heartily advise anyone to go to the festival, if only to purchase food from the Japan Society stall and fund my global domination attempt.

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