Reflective Essay About Food Festival

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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)…show more content…
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

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