International+week

International week is a really fun week at Hunt middle School. The whole school celebrates all of the different cultures a Hunt.

On Monday we ran a Wednesday schedule and had an assembly. The assembly was really cool to go to and see all of the different things that students did to show what their culture was. The assembly started with a flag parade. Peggy Weaver, one of our guidance counselors asked some of the students to represent their flag in the parade. Each student that was holding a flag was from the country. In al. There were 30 different flags in the parade that represented the different cultures in our school.

After the flag parade there was a fashion show of what some of the people would wear in their country for different events. It's really cool to see what other people would wear to a wedding for example. A couple of groups of girls performed dances from there country with special music. The girls had put a lot of time into practicing to make the dances perfect.

The last part of the assembly was my favorite and sure that it was most people's favorite. African drumming! These 4 guys were amazing at African drumming. Last year they came to perform for the international week and we absolutely loved them. They had catchy beats and at the end they actually had us participate in doing stuff in our seats! It was great, and when I move onto the high school next year I will definitely miss international week and the African drumming.

In homeroom we watched a video where this guy was acting like the lady didn't know what he was saying because she was from a different country originally. The lady could understand everything that he was saying she could speak perfectly fine English. She finally asked where he was from and she was making fun of him so she could get him back, apparently he wasn't getting the hints. After the video we had to do a worksheet asking “What are some messages in the video?” You had to give like 4 examples. I put the link down below if you would like to watch it.

On Tuesday our school had a snow day so we had a nice day off. The rest of the week a different type of food item was served at lunch from a different country that was served by hunt students and the teacher that taught the language.

Wednesday the Spanish teacher and some of the Spanish students served lunches Spanish ice cream. The ice cream was vanilla with chocolate sauce on it. I'm not really sure how it was Spanish ice cream but it was delicious!

Thursday was dumplings and French Apple crêpes. I didn't get a dumpling put I did get a crêpe and it was delicious! I am in French with a bunch of my friends and we got to make the crêpes, it was a lot of work but fun! We got to use the healthy living room where there were 5 stoves and kitchen areas for us to make them. Some of the French students weren't very good at making crêpes so a lot of them had to be thrown away. This was a really bummer because we didn't have a lot of crêpes to served to the students. In the end we had to cut the crêpes into thirds so everyone could have a piece. It was a lot of fun to make them and to serve them to everyone in the school.

On Oasis team we had an international dinner with each mod. Every student from each class had to pick a country from their heritage pick a plant and make a dish from that plant. For example my country was Ireland, and my plant was currants. In the end I made Irish soda bread. It was so good! Since currants weren't in season I had to use craisins instead. If you didn't make a dish or you were going to be gone you had to make a video on how to make your dish. I'm in mod 3 and all of the food was delicious! We had everything from the main course to dessert.

On Friday was the last day of international week and he last day before February break. For international week in Friday we wore red and white to represent our school colors and all of the cultures in our school. Throughout the week there was a table in the hall with a trivia question that you had to answer. What you would do is write your name and the answer and if you got it correct you would get a special treat after they checked all of the answers.

Overall international week at hunt was a blast and I wish that I would be here next year just for that one week to celebrate.

The link below is for the video we watched on Monday, enjoy!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=DWynJkN5HbQ

Written By Hannah