We gathered at the community dining room for a wonderful breakfast that Jewel made. Some of our hosts joined us and got acquainted.
One van load headed for the airport to pick up one student who was rejoining us, and the other van went to a Walmart to buy groceries for lunch. We converged at The Hive, the base for Anabaptist Refugee Committee, and ate lunch with the ARC team.
After lunch, Peter, the ARC administrator, gave us a presentation of ARC and their ministry that gives English classes for Afghan immigrants in the Minneapolis area.
In the late afternoon, we drove to Connexions.
There, Kim Voo Friesen met us and gave us a tour of the building and told us about her experience of coming to the US from Vietnam in the late 1960’s. She’s now retired and still active in teaching English across Zoom. She also organized the volunteers that helped host the international dinner in the evening.
We joined the gathering crowd of new friends and scattered among the tables to enjoy various ethnic foods and get to know each other. After the meal, our group sang two songs. Then we had everyone form a circle around the dining room and we taught them the song and motions for “Bind Us Together.”
We helped clean up the tables and dishes, then left for the hour commute back to our hosts at Altona.
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