Spanish Weekend

This weekend I had a lot of Spanish contact. On Friday I went to the Spain National day celebrated at the Spanish embassy in Beijing. On Saturday I went to first Spanish Omelettes competition.

When going to the embassy I had an alternative plan, as I did not know if I was going to be accepted without invitation. In the end, a warm “buenas noches” (good evening) was enough to get in.

The cocktail was very packed of people celebrating the Hispanity Day (12th of October). I did not find any controversy about the flag as it seems to happened in Spain.

These type of cocktails tend to be a perfect way to make networking. Although in this occasion I could feel that people where more with a party mood than anything else. Even the ambassador was there until the last moment. As well as the day after at the Spanish Omelette Context where he was member of the judge.

About the Spanish Omelette competition I knew about it from an Email received from Madrid (Thank you Chema!). In order to support the international dimension of the competition I went togetether with two colleagues from class. One French and another Lithuanian. During our trip on the underground we also added a Chinese whom we were speaking during our trip and decided to joined us. We arrived a bit latte as to form part of the participating groups, but at a good time to test the omelettes. The official drink Spanish beer Mahou, which just arrived to China.