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Good afternoon and welcome to the grassroots sport business show here on spectrum on air. Um, usually on here with John Woodcock or the NASA Chalice or anybody else who cares to sit alongside me as we deliver the show. But today it's Dave Johnson Rainer against the world other than my special guest. Yeah. So this is a young lady who we featured on the show. Maybe 23 months ago. Um, Lady called Aaliyah like allude to uh huh. The student drug the southeast of the UK and down the Kent region. And within her school, she's been working around the World Food Day and the different sorts of cultural differences. Um, cultural diversity is a word that Leo had mentioned to me before, which I think is fantastic. So today we'll be looking at how that has impacted earlier, but also what's happened over the back of it. So just like to welcome to the show, Leah, like, allude to Hialeah. I believe it. How you doing? You're right. Yeah, yeah, very well. Thank you. Really, Really Well. Did you have a good Christmas? Yes, I did. I had a little Christmas quality with the family. Yeah, sounds good. Understood. Very similar to what we do. Except we give our family get togethers outside of Christmas Day, Christmas day. Jane, my wife and we just sat in, Basically drank too much and too much of a good book. Quiet Christmas. Do your family all live quite close to you? Um, no. But really, actually, um, they're all dotted around the world, to be honest. Okay. Yeah. So did you have international visitors on Christmas Day then? Or was this your local family this year? Yes. Mhm. Tell me. So my siblings from France came over. Um, just on the somewhere. Summer winter. Half term. Yeah. So they spent Christmas with us. Very nice. So how many people did you actually have in the house for Christmas dinner, then? Um 22. How 22. You must live in some kind of huge hands. Yeah, familiar. Uh, he was obviously. So when we last spoke, you were preparing for the World Food Day. You just like to remind us what that was about. Whether the interest locally had come from just for those that you can't remember that particular show or were unable to join us on that day. It's just been writing us a little. Um, so, basically, World Food Day is a cultural food festival that gives an insight to the different cultures that we have at my school Valley park. And what it was is that we made 10 different dishes from all around the world. If we're breaking into sections, we did around 2 to 4 dishes of each country. The main continents. Sorry. Um, and which would include the Americas. So both South and North America together Europe, Africa, Asia and the Marciano. Yeah. Um, and then, uh, we I think we did, I think, from the top of my head for Europe, we did scones and ballooning, um, for Africa. We did fried rice, um, doughnuts, Jennifer rice chicken, Um, and then for Asia. We did samosas. We did cough to Yeah. Um, and then for the Americas. We did jump earlier. And plant Thomas Collado. You know, I'm not out of either of those American dishes. Generally, generally is kind of like the pilot. No way. Yeah. So it's got to it. So chicken and prawn in it, the same way as it does and Clinton is Colorado's is a kind of like a plantain and a coconut oil kind of cooked in coconut oil is up big. So So it's got, like have been sweet banana taste with, like, that coconut wheel hints. Yeah, that sounds like younger. Yeah. So that was that World Food Day, and I got my friends to help me execute the whole planet. Took me about five months to plan the whole event upon it being counselled in July and eventually happened in October. Mhm. Mhm. So was it worth the wait? Would everybody agree? Oh, yes, definitely. It was definitely worth the wait. Because we've got to iron out a few details that needed to be improved. And we were able to get a, like, a little feedback from it because we decided to do surveys last minute just to see where we could, you know, if it was done next year where it could be ironed out of something different. So initially, the whole event was it was actually quite an experience for everybody, both people that, um, did it and came to it because we decided to do, like, a 20 p entry. Because, you know, if we're you're getting free food there has to be something that comes from it. Yeah. So, um, from that money that we raised, we think we raised about over, like, 80 to £100. So you can imagine how many people sort of, um I think it was around 500 students and teachers, Um, in total. Um, And then, um, upon that, we donated the money to show racism. The red card charity. Great chance. Yes. Um, because conveniently the same day that World Food Day was it was non school uniforms for that charity. Yeah, it was added to the donations here, Um, and then upon think what else happened after that? I think. But yeah, we had, like, different music music styles from different countries as well. Um, I don't really think that people actually paid attention to that purely because, you know, the food was the vein. It was the main source of the whole thing. And the music was pretty drained up by all the voices. Um, yeah, the decoration, the decorations as well as pre. It was pretty last minute, but it was really like I was amazed because I assigned my friends, some of my friends to do the decorations. When I came in and I saw it, I was like, Well, like it's actually happening country, you know? Yeah. So but the day that it actually happened, it was really, really stressful for me. I can't lie to you. I was shouting at everyone. I think I cried because I thought it was going to go wrong. But it turned out to be the best thing. And so yeah, so take us back to the very start. And so when I say the very start, the start of the day So obviously a lot of planning has gone into this. You talk about decorations, you're talking about music. And they were talking about feeding 500 people. Yeah. Where do you start with arranging something like that? How does that work? I could so I actually had the whole day planned out so that, you know, everything could go smoothly, but it didn't go smoothly. Um, it's just how things go. Always going to plan. My plan was that in the morning, everyone comes in at eight o'clock and what I did, I made sure that the day before, all the food was pressed so that on the day you just cook it and that's about it. And so then after everybody came and we dropped our bags and I had, like, a little pep talk with the team. And then after that, uh, we started cooking the food. And then I was just kind of like, in and out of the hole, because that's where it was in the hole in the kitchen to see how things were going. And then I decided, No, I can't do that because I need to cook my dishes as well. So I decided to appoint somebody in charge of the whole so that the whole would be ready by the time the food was done and that actually really helped out my workload, which was really good. Um, and then I, um, well, I was cooking the African dishes alongside my friend. I did the fried rice and she did the Syria, which is kind of like a kid Babalu really spicy to bother me. Um and then after that, sorry, a clear is on Children sitting duties. So will bear with me. For me, that was absolutely amazing. I struggled to make food for myself, whether that's breakfast Emirati, um, to try and get ingredients, everything prepared and ready to cook in a relatively short period of time. That takes some organising, and it's probably a bit of a monster that I wouldn't be able to okay, angle on my own. But I think it's the nature of how passionate Julia feels about this type of thing. Because, yes, food is right what we're talking about today at the moment. But if you look at what it actually does mean just represent, it's called the differences. I've said it before on the show. I believe in united We stand and divided before and we should celebrate. What is that? All right? The same about us all. Culturally, you can't ignore the fact that cultures enrich our our life. Yeah. Issue issues back again. I can stop added Is everything ok? Yes, it's all right. So where were we received? We were talking about the star that I won't be Yes. Um, yeah. So we had our teacher help us with the food as well. Um, and, um, the food had to be finished cooking by 1 20 which is like when our lunchtime starts. Um, just you don't for health and safety. You know, there's a lot, a lot of things to consider, especially with food. Um, like with your cooking rice dishes, they have to be either served hot or cold. They can't be served warm or reheated like that because, you know, at least the food poisoning. Um, so, yeah, I was kind of focusing on that. And then I started crying because, you know, the stress, the tension is just building up. Um, but then my friends just told me to calm down and relax. You've got this, like, we've still got time, You know, Um and then after that, um, it was the actual event. So it was kind of like its speedy, speedy, speedy. And then it happens, if that makes sense. Yeah. So the time I don't even know where it went. Um, And upon that, the actual event, we all went in and took a group photo. I've got some people to video the whole event. Um, and, um well, I appointed like my friends and different dishes so that they can be serving because of covid. We don't want people to be taken fruit and stuff like that. Um and then, yeah, we had, like, people coming in for seconds, charging 20 p for a second. Yes, I did. Entrepreneur. Coming out. Good to see you. So, people, probably for a second, probably for thirds. And then we realised that within the 1st 15 minutes of the event, all the freedoms called in 15 minutes. Yeah. Wow. Yeah, That's a good thing, isn't it? But it's to me, like people going back for seconds and thirds. Yeah, amazing. And so because we're a couple of minutes from the commercial break quick question for me, how to take us to the end of this segment is was there a more popular continent for food than another? Was they released popular and the most popular? Or was there a good spread of interesting in all of the different foods? I mean, I wasn't really paying attention. But according to the survey, which was one of the questions on the survey, the most the most, uh, popular country was Africa and Asia, and the least popular was Europe. And yeah, just Europe. Yeah, So isn't that strange? That's probably because even though we're not in Europe, but we are in Europe or Brexit. Whether that means, um I would imagine we're used to those taste and those foods. People probably happened before. Essentially, I would imagine there were quite a few people that haven't tried food from different continents. And so that must have been really, really interesting on that survey afterwards, I do get the whole fact that you probably weren't able to take into account any one minute within that day because you have been so busy. I mean, yeah, I know. Yeah. Okay, let's go to a commercial break when we come back a little, Well, we'll delve a little bit deeper into what was in and around, um, the day and what's happened since, and whether you dare to do it again. But let's go off to a commercial break and we'll be back with you very, very shortly.