Globe Cafe - 'A Taste of the UK' evening

I (John) arrived at BISC at 6.45 in the evening to be met by hordes of students and only three cars, and they were little cars! So May and I got things moving and phoned up local churches for more transport to get things moving faster, and by 7.40 all the students (about 80) had been safely transported from BISC to Ebenezer Church (Ebe). John even got his hard pressed wife (Hazel) involved! It was like the Berlin airlift mark 2! Meanwhile, at Ebe, the Globe Cafe team had decked out the church with flags and soft lighting creating a pleasant ambience and atmospshere.
The evening started with the National Anthem of the UK and all of the students stood up! This was followed by video shots from the UKs past, Churchill to Diana Princess of Wales. It’s funny but we were sure we saw John with Churchill in the 1945 clip! Tony with his banjo and guitar serenaded us all before food was served. This was an English delicacy who recipe is known only to a few in the Royal Household and English nobility; ‘bangers and mash’ with peas and carrots. May was taking photographs throughout this event. John was wearing a blue jacket, grey trousers and a culturally correct tie with his BISC badge but was mistaken on numerous occasions for a bus driver! One person though he had escaped from the local psychiatric hospital!!
After ‘bangers and mash’ it was back to the band! To great cheers they even sang one song in Mandarin! After the band had finished a Beatles tape was played, their early music early 1960s and Hazel (John’s wife) and Ann (from BISC) danced the twist!!! After twenty six years of marriage I never knew that Hazel could do this!!! John met a young lady called April from Taiwan and she was standing next to May, so I went looking for June and July! For us at BISC we would like to say on behalf of the students who attended a big thank you to the folks at Ebe who catered for all our needs in entertainment, food and song.
All in all it was an excellent evening, and all the students looked happy and were smiling, and so it was back to the Berlin airlift to get everyone home safely. All-in-all BISC can honestly say ‘Job well-done’ thanks to the folks of Ebe and the wider Christian community of Bristol.