Close the Door on '04....Herne Lodge Party Time again
Happy New Year! This should be a memorable year, complete with finishing the MBA in September and (hopefully!) starting a great new job at the end of the year….After my first ski trip, to Meribel, France for Christmas, my flatmate and I decided to stay around Cambridge for New Year’s Eve. Cambridge you say?? How potentially boring??? But wait….it is never quite boring with MBA classmates around, particularly at Herne Lodge (yes, my house really has a 'title', there is actually a sign that says ‘Herne Lodge’ outside).
Ryan and I decided to try to arrange a potluck dinner party for New Years, though we were a bit worried it would end up being just us, since many of our classmates were travelling for New Years. After sending out an Evite, slowly the replies started to come in, and I went into party-planning mood, picking out appetizers and desserts to make, ordering helium balloons and party poppers, buying champagne…and the numbers grew and grew! A few days before New Year’s we had about 25 replies. By champagne toast time, we counted 38 people!
Having an international class brings great culinary benefits as well. Each attendee brought a food dish from their home country. We had a spread that could have fed an army, and it came from Thailand, China, India, Jordan, Canada, America, Japan, and more. You should have seen the people hoarding over the food table with plates in hand, greedy looks all around! Of course there was more than enough to go around. Anyway the party was great, lots of fun, one of the best New Year’s Eves I’ve had, and a great chance for all the classmates who were around to get together and welcome the coming year.
You really can’t beat the MBA for the interaction with classmates alone. Cambridge does a great job selecting each class, so that it is very diverse, culturally and in terms of work background, and also that they are down-to-earth, level-headed people. Everyone in the class has done amazing things in life, but you can talk to them without feeling intimidated. And everyone is up for a laugh and a good time as well, hence the weekly pub nights, always at a different pub in Cambridge.
posted by Jen @ 1:00 PM
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