International Day

Today our school threw a festival for International Day, which was a lot of fun. It was for the Symposium. which is going great by the way; our family's guest is Sarabeth and she fits right in!)

Thayer and participated in the festival. We painted our faces a lot and acted as moving statues (like you'd see in Barcelona) or as mischievous mimes. There was great food from all over the world (my favorite was the German stew) and everybody had a great time.

When I say Thayer and I painted our faces, I mean we covered our faces in color. She had a white background with red, yellow, and orange on her eyes. I was completely blue with a green swoop on half of my face and purple dots. We also sprayed our hair, hers being red and mine black.

Boy, my shower was colorful afterwards.

We spent the fair mostly not talking, messing with people (good-natured-ly), and mirroring each other. I even saw my friend Sarah from Scribblers. She was at the Ireland booth because it's pretty much her favorite place in the whole world.

Sarah and her sister (also the school librarian) Cassie dubbed me an ambassador of Ireland because I snagged them some apple pie from the Romanian booth. What can I say? That apple pie was pretty good.

There was this one kid who kept trying to make Thayer and I talk, but we wouldn't crack. Now, I couldn't hold a straight face to save my life, but not-talking isn't all that hard.

Also, our friend Harrison was a traditionally Parisian mime. We all shared the same plot space at the festival. For some reason everyone including Thayer and I messed with him, but nobody messed with the two who were literally black and blue all over. Weird.

People also took lots of pictures with us Street Performers. That was lots of fun.

International Day was a blast. I hope we throw another festival next year. It wouldn't be as fun without the guests from the Symposium though...maybe we should just host the Symposium every year!

I'd definitely be okay with that, especially if we were to host someone as awesome as Sarabeth!
Hannah Renea