geography fair

May 22, 2008It’s exactly 8:09 and I have just arrived home from the Geography Fair. I am utterly speechless of what I have seen at the Geography Fair tonight. Everything—from the little parade to the stands was just impressive and amazing. I especially enjoyed the parade; it was splendid. I am at a loss for words. I’ve never experienced a Geography Fair in real life except in books and I am just—well was amazed. It was just so amazing—that’s all I can say for it. Truthfully, at first, when I heard about the Geography Fair, I thought it was going to be boring. From what I’ve gathered around at school, it seemed like almost everyone were going there to go eat some food. When I told my friend that I wasn’t going to go, she was like, “What? You’re not going? They give really delicious food, you know.” So my conclusion was this: the food must be great but the presentation must be shabby. I had no intention on going because I was told that we were going to the Geography Fair on Friday anyway, so why waste a good evening to go to a Geography Fair? But as the day wore on I began to think that maybe I should go to the Geography Fair. The seventh graders did work hard for the Fair so I was thinking they deserved to have audience and besides I really had nothing to do, so why not kill time by going? My decisions changed rapidly from going to not going. In the end, I decided not to go, but apparently my father had already come home from work and was waiting outside to take me to the Geography Fair. So with a final ‘oh, why not?’ I hopped on to the backseat of the car and headed to school. When I arrived it was all a big confusion. I didn’t see that people were going to the ‘benches’ to sit down so I just wandered around looking at the stands and admiring them. Then when I came to the last stand, I saw that I was kind of the only one standing around while everyone else were all sitting down. So, I quickly dashed to the nearest sit possibly and sat down, almost bumping into Ms. Urruthia. Mr. G (don’t remember his real name), our principal said something into the microphone and then seventh grade students after students came, bringing an—I can’t explain this well but bear with me—item that had relation to the country they were assigned. This ‘items’ were things the students made, which was really surprising, because at first I thought they had all brought it somewhere. It was that good. I especially loved the sauna from the Finland country. The fact that a person really was actually in the sauna was a cool idea. And the seventh graders were all wearing the costumes fit for their country. One question was bugging me though: where’d they get all those costumes? After the parade, which was, I repeat, a brilliant success, I roamed around stand after stand looking at all different sorts of stuff. The food, like people had said, was delicious and I got to eat different foods from different countries, which I thought was pretty cool, since I don’t get to do that all the time.          I need to end here, because I still had lots of things to do, but I would just like to mention before I turn my computer off: Geography Fair is awesome! I wish I was here in seventh grade to have participated in it! It looked like so much fun, except for all those nervous and jittery moments like talking to the crowd and explaining the country.