International Dinner will sell tickets on the bottom floor of Baker, selling 30 tickets a day.
International organizations on campus will provide students the opportunity to try home cooked food that isn’t found in the dining halls or Uptown.
The International Student Union will host its annual International Dinner where both international students and domestic students are invited to taste different ethnic foods and watch performances by students.
Last year, International Dinner tickets sold out within two or three days, Hashim Pashtun, president of International Student Union, said. International Student Union has sold tickets for the past two weeks, only selling 30 tickets each day in hopes of giving every student the opportunity to attend the dinner, Pashtun said.
“We’re 99.9 percent sure that we’ll sell out,” Pashtun, a graduate student studying engineering, said. “But we want to make sure how much more accessible we are to students, how much we can make sure people properly know about the event so we can get new faces, especially the domestic students who have never experienced international dinner of international food.”
This new ticket selling technique will improve year after year, Pashtun said in an International Student Union meeting.
This dinner will also act as a kickoff for International Education Week, which promotes education abroad and cultural exchange programs as well as holding panels talking about different international issues, Pashtun said.
The theme of International Dinner is “The Taste Around the World,” and will have different food made by the organizations within International Student Union to best represent the international groups on campus.
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“The most important thing is you get to see different people in different cultures,” Taghi Sahraeian, a graduate student studying biochemistry and a volunteer, said. “Because the food is the main part for introducing the cultures. By tasting the food, you can see exactly which kind of culture (it came from).”
The International Dinner is a way for people of different cultures to meet one another, Pashtun said.
“International dinner is where we provide that comfort zone, that platform where domestic students can feel at home and experience other countries and cultures in Athens itself,” Pashtun said.
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