While running around on my kitchen as if on skates, trying to prepare all three plates for my hungry crowd, and then for myself, Hilga commented on the scene.

“In my country, if you eat before everybody has something on their plate, before ME grandpa says the prayers and says, ‘you may eat,’ you stand in the corner and wait til everyone is finished to eat. That ‘il teach ya.”

Sheepishly I nodded, as I swalled my second helping of rice.