Family Potluck may sound really common to most people．It is justa family get-together meal with nothing special．However the one that I experienced is absolutely different．
Being as a foreigner in the United States，I hardly ever felt lonely even in such a small city．Just as many people know about America，it is an inter-cultural land converging people from all over the world．There you can see all colors of skins of people and experience all kinds of cultures with a surprise of finding everything amazing and fun．The Family Potluck that I mentioned above is of a differently and gigantical-ly big family which could be generalized as a family of all the foreign-ers．
Family Potluck was organized by a club named Women Interna-tional club which is set by some local English teachers who have retired from work．This WIC gathers women，married and unmarried，English Speakers and non-English speakers together，opening up a world for all the foreign females．
Family Potluck is like a mini food festival．requiring every atlend-ed family to bring a cooked dish which could best represent one’s cul-ture and heritage．Families put the dishes together and then everybody can just pick a plate and taste every one of the dishes displayed，similarto self-help．
Originally，I wanted my mom to take some Chinese dumplings there．Nevertheless，considering it may be hard to be distinguished from the Korean ones，we finally gave up this idea and took a Shandong snack as our final dish．I guess not every Chinese knows about it．It is afried desert made from flour and sugar．We made a big box of it with a simple introduction of the food．
The food in Family Potluck is really wonderful and colorful．There are chicken cooked in South American way，Salad in Korean wav．milky cake in African way and a lot of foodstuff that I had never seen before．It is to our surprise that the snack that we brought was eaten up at last and there is even a Korean girl saying that she loved it．I was so happy that I didn"t leave until the night fell．
In the evening，Kelly’s family invited mine to play sports together．We two families drove to big grassland in which we chatted a lot about the respective cultures and stories．The scene of two fathers．mothers and girls has never gone away from my memory of the days in Iowa．
In a foreign land like the United States，having some same experi-enced friends like all those foreigners can be a strong spiritual pillar of our sometimes-isolated life．A get-together of foreigners can really make me sense a tinge of home filled with warmness，enthusiasm and thendship when homesickness sprang up．Potluck is just so great an idea to gather people as well as food all over the world together．provid-ing people With a chance to communicate and make friends．
Even when I came back in China，I sometimes think of the Potluckhat I ever attended．I like having the feeling of tasting both food and cultures．
