Last Friday before the holidays I took part in organizing the International Day.
This was a preplanned service activity
On Thursday I helped with setting up the gym for the evening
talent show. This included assembling the stage and making a screen for the
film that was shown during the concert.
On Friday I took part in setting up the hall for the lunch.
We unpacked the food that the students have brought and arranged it on the
tables. Later when the parents started to arrive at school I showed them the
way to hall and helped them to find where their kids were. During the lunch I
helped with serving food.
After the end of the talent show we took the chairs back to
the school. I took part in disassembling the stage and helped with taking the
musical instruments (piano and the drums) back to the music room.
Overall the day was a great success. However there were some
minor issues that we did not think about. One of them was the type of food that
the students brought. Everything was very tasty but when we were unpacking the
food it was sometimes hard to understand what type of food that was. Especially
with pies and other pastry it was hard to guess what the stuffing was. And when
students and teachers asked during the lunch what was inside and we did not
know that ourselves.
We also had
to consider the ethical implications of our activities when we were planning
the activities. For example, at first we wanted to divide students into groups
by their countries. However after some debates we declined this idea. We wanted
the students to be united not divided. There would be competition between teams
and we did not want it to be in the form of competition between people from
different countries.
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