I was on the bus heading to Mariehamn, while surfing the internet I came across a message inviting me to a get together at the famous Café Bönan.
Here is the message:-
Dear all who have contributed to a successful year of multicultural cafés!
It was on the 14th of April 2008 that the first multicultural café took place at Café Bönan. The country to be presented was Kenya and the atmosphere was wonderful despite the crowded room. Since then we have arranged cafés about Russia, Singapore, Gambia, Japan, the Baltic countries, Cuba, England/Scotland/Wales, Tanzania and Philippines. You sll have been outstanding ambassadors for your country and we are very grateful for your contribution!
Åland has residents coming from 82 different countries, so this gives us plenty of opportunities to get together and learn more about them and their representatives. The team of organisers is motivated to continue with multicultural cafés and therefore would like to invite you to an evaluation dinner and multicultural party on July 3 (Friday) at Café Bönan. We will start with dinner at 19.00 for everyone who has been involved in the cafés by preparing food or making presentations of your home country. The multicultural party will start at 21.00 and then your family members and friends are welcome to join. We will prepare some games and we hope that the evening will result in a lot of laughter and great fun!
Some of the questions that we would like you to reflect over before the meeting are the following:
- What is your strongest memory from the multicultural café that you have helped to arrange?
- What has been most exciting?
- What have you had troubles with?
- Do you have any suggestions how the cafés can be developed in the future?
Your feed-back and ideas are very valuable in order to make the cafés even better. If you can't come on Friday the 3rd of July we would appreciate if you sent us a short comment about your experiences by e-mail.
Hope to see you next week! Have a wonderful summer!
The Multicultural Association of Åland
The Finnish Red Cross
THe Åland Islands Peace Institute
Café Bönan
Read my next update soon about my views on the multicultural café and integration on Åland!
Pic: A Swedish and a Senegalese girl during an intergration program in Stockholm
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