UN! (PART I - The Preparations)

PART I - The Preparations

Every year, our school celebrates the United Nations Day. Each class were assigned a country,  and we have to redecorate our classrooms, be in costumes, and prepare the food!

For this year, our class, Grade 10A, will represent the country of India!

Last year we weren't able to win so this time we're really really REALLY determined to achieve victory.

Go, go INDIA!

So, first of all we Planned...

Research, research, research about India! 

The traditional costumes, famous landmarks, food, music, culture, etc. etc.

NEXT:

We decided to divide the class into two committees: the FOOD and DECORATIONS.

I was assigned to decorations which was quite a challenge because how can we transform our plain, boring, and small classroom into the country of India? The answer was to listen, cooperate and enjoy. We listened to each others' ideas and opinions, cooperated in doing the tasks (though you can never avoid little arguments and such... but I think it's pretty normal in a class. The best thing is afterwards, we all resolve it together and forget it later. :D ) 

We're even planning and telling each other's ideas thru FACEBOOK! :) 

"Don't forget to bring....." :P

The Funds! We need Cash!

We also had to contribute to buy the materials for the designs and ingredients for the food (goodbye savings T.T) hahaha.

And I was always making detours to ATC (practically almost everyday) to buy materials! (No complaints there! I have an excuse to make gala. LOL :P )

The Decorations!

For the designs, we decided to fill it with a lot of cloths, cloths, cloths! (The problem is where are we gonna get that much! LOL) But thanks to Tomi (who provided ALL  the curtains) and Martin and T. Anna's cloths, and T. Richmond's carpet... it was all solved!)

Then we put them on the classroom with the help of the guys...

That's our mascot SHIVA!

Walk along the colorful streets of India!

I drew it and all my classmates painted and colored it! :)

Our Bright Idea:

We also thought of a brilliant idea! (which the other classes copied,,, but we're the original! :P )

CELLOPHANES! 

We also covered the lights, so it glowed with different colors! XD

Our windows looked great! I got the idea from stained glasses in church, I figured we can also do those in our windows and they looked SUPER NICE!

I wasn't able to take pictures of our windows but I got the idea here:

Our windows looked a bit like this.... Nice, right?

Honestly, I actually enjoy activities like these! And I think "the Making" parts are one of the important things that make it exciting and enjoyable. 

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Though it's stressful and tiring, seeing the final product can never fail to make you smile. :)
And in my opinion, our classroom looked pretty much Amazing!
So I'm (hoping ) SURE we'll WIN! Go Grade 10A! XD