English party.. sorf of

I was at my very first English party. Well.. it was not as much of a party as it was a get-together with a friend of mine for a coffee. However, we were planning on having this "party" with other friends but they did not show up at school at the day the date was set and since we both commute to school from quite far we decided to have a party without them.
As it said, we went for a coffee. For those who don't know, the whole point of having a English party is to have a conversation with your friends in English. So, we did spend the whole time together speaking English with each other in order to improve and hone our speaking skills and train our critical thinking. To achieve that, not only did we have a small talk and gossip as we usually do (jk haha) but we tried having a serious discussion about current events, problems and other serious stuff that we usually don't have a chance to talk about.
Surprisingly, that turned out to be even more fun than we could have hoped for! Even though in most cases we did not agree with each other and people sitting at the tables around us must have thought that we were fighting, we pointed out some really interested facts and exchanged ideas so I think it was a real asset to my English skills.
After a while of sitting and sipping coffee we both forgot that were speaking other than our mother tongue and it just felt natural ever since. I am so going to bring this up next time I see my friends and hopefully we will do it again sometime soon!