Ruby
A. Hernandez
Mrs. Muñoz-Smart
Spanish III
13 May 2004
This year I had the privilege of
being able to help host the International Food Festival. This has been a
tradition in our school that I was happy to be involved with and was able to
help make possible. When we first started working on the project I promptly
signed up for the decorations committee and started making posters. I spent
long and short periods making serpentines and other small decorations I even made
two piñata molds so people could decorate them. Then I went to make bigger and
very important decorations; the flags. I don’t know how many flags I made but
it I tried to make them as accurate as possible with our supplies. Closer to
the time of the festival, and once the flags were done, I began to color Iris’
(really good) drawings.
The day of the International Food
Festival I came to school with some cookies for the TOT club and Mexican rice
(my favorite food) for the Spanish III class requirement for the food festival.
Then I went to my first period class and after my presentation went out to the
place where the food festival was going to be held. It was a cool morning with
a cold breeze that made you cold, especially if you weren’t wearing a sweater
(like me). My friends and I began putting up decorations along the poles and
walls of ground zero (festival area). All those serpientinas I had helped make
were wrapped all over the poles and posters of different heritages taped along
wall windows and doors. Then when lunchtime was close we were allowed to eat
early and then we had lunch break. After the break we started to take out the
tables where all the food was to be set on. The tables are a lot heavier than
they look. We set them out and lined them along the sidewalk and in between the
now decorated poles. Then we began to tear colored butcher paper and use them
as table covers for the tables. After all that was done we were finally able to
put our flags on the tables. We made enough (and more) flags to cover the front
of every table to show just how international our food festival was. I also
helped tie balloons for a while. Then we began to heat up and place food on the
tables. After what seemed like no time at all people started coming out and the
International Food Festival began.
There was of course food and
entertainment. All types of foods from cookies to tacos lined the tables and
the smell of the food made your taste buds water and your stomach grumble.
There was a long line that people were willing to wait in just to get food and
get a taste of dishes from around the world. For entertainment we had a
mariachi from Roosevelt and entertainment by the school itself that ranged from
students to teachers.
Being part of the food festival was
a great experience. It was great seeing all the decorations I helped make all
over the place. The area looked like a rainbow of color and culture not to
mention the beautiful flags that lined the roof. The area was unrecognizable
from it’s usually boring brown colors to this lively colorful place. I was
amazed and proud by the transformation and couldn’t believe that I actually
helped make it so nice. It’s a nice memory to look back on and I hope to enjoy
other festivals like this one. Only I think I’d like to enjoy it as the guest
not the host because it’s not to fun cleaning up and scrubbing tables
afterwards. But now that I think of it, it was worth it from the work to the
food.
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