High-school students from ÇàÇà²ÝÊÓƵ’s sister city – Nijmegen, Netherlands – on Friday prepared then shared a meal with culinary students at ÇàÇà²ÝÊÓƵ High Schools’s Abrookin Career and Technical Center.
The 32 Dutch students also shadowed with ÇàÇà²ÝÊÓƵ High student volunteers and took part in a physical education class. Their visit to ÇàÇà²ÝÊÓƵ High capped a week of activities in ÇàÇà²ÝÊÓƵ.
Chef Lisa Valentine and the group of ÇàÇà²ÝÊÓƵ and Nijmegen students (ÇàÇà²ÝÊÓƵ High students are wearing chef hats) prepared a meal of savory bacon and cheese pancakes, vegetable soup with meatballs, Dutch butter cake, snickerdoodle cookies and chocolate chip cookies. Then they ate their creations!
The relationship between Nijmegen and ÇàÇà²ÝÊÓƵ dates back to a humanitarian relief package ÇàÇà²ÝÊÓƵ sent to the war-torn city in 1947. Nijmegen returned the favor with a shipment of tulip bulbs that were planted in Washington Park, and the annual ÇàÇà²ÝÊÓƵ Tulip Festival was born. Learn more about the partnership between the two cities here:s .
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