Bollywood Day – Class 8

After spending some time learning about Bollywood movies, themes, and planning trips across India in order to better understand Indian culture, landscape, and cuisine, the class decided it was only fit that we should throw a party.
On Saturday, at 10:00 A.M, we (along with some of our teachers) arrived at school in Villa H and began to prepare the food for our Bollywood Theme Party. The Indian (and Bollywood) theme was intended to expand, and, in part, celebrate, our knowledge of Indian writing, culture, cuisine and movies, which we had spent the last months learning about and exploring.
Our party was joined by Mr. Vale, our English teacher, and Mr. Singh, our ICT teacher, who had also organized the party and prepared the ingredients for our cooking, as well as Dr. Kmiecik, our homeroom teacher, and Frau Schmidt, an honoured guest.

Our menu for the party included chicken curry, roti (a type of Indian bread), salads, lentil curry (daal), and lassi, a traditional dahi-based drink, all of which we prepared and cooked ourselves. Other dishes that we were not able to prepare ourselves were bought. These were naan, another type of Indian bread, Rogan Josh curry, Indian desserts, biryani, papadam, and juices. After preparing the dishes, we enjoyed the food together, discussed various topics, and shared our knowledge of India and the vastness of Indian culture. After we were finished with eating, we all took part in cleaning the dishes and then settled down. We decided to watch a Bollywood movie picked out by the class, called ‘Slumdog Millionaire’. As we watched the movie, we also enjoyed desserts – ice cream, fruits, and Indian sweets – brought by the teachers.
Slumdog Millionaire ran over 2 hours long, and explored various different aspects of Indian culture and life – all whilst being a humorous and digestible film.
Overall, the party was effective in broadening our understanding of Indian culture by teaching us how to prepare staple dishes from different parts of India, as well as celebrating our efforts in the past months that we had spent extensively studying the topic.

Class 8