Erasmus students already tasted the Portuguese Christmas dinner

The Christmas came earlier for the foreign students from UBI. Soup, bacalhau and many traditional sweets were enjoyed by them. They even received some presents from the university.

Last Thursday was an opportunity for the Erasmus students from UBI to know the Christmas Portuguese tradition. The university organized for them a special dinner in Cantina Melo e Castro. Almost 60 students met here, at 19.30, the representants of UBI: vice-rector Luis Carlos Carrilho Gonçalves, Sofia Correia Lemos, responsible for the Office of International Programs and Relations, and Ana Rita Carrilho, the professor of the Portuguese Course for Erasmus students. Around 10 representants from International Erasmus Support (IES) were present too.
Before starting the dinner, vice-rector Luis Carlos Carrilho Gonçalves thanked all for being there, wished a very nice meal and finished with hoping that the next semester will be a warmer one.
After eating cabbage soup, codfish and different kind of cookies, Erasmus students received from the vice-rector a cap with the logo of UBI. The evening finished with a group picture and with a little coffee, near a glass of Porto wine. As Jorge Gilberto, from IES, said, this dinner was “an opportunity that UBI gave to Erasmus students and some members of IES to get to know the Portuguese traditions of Christmas”.
At UBI, in this first semester of the academic year 2006-2007, were almost 100 foreign Erasmus students. They come from different part of Europe as Romania, France, Poland, Belgium, Slovenia and Spain.