International Day.

                           International Day

          There are a lot of people from different countries in our school.  We all know a bit about those countries but they are something’s of what we are not aware.  Every country has it’s own culture and history.  International day is a very good opportunity for every student to show his or her culture.

  We had an International day in the school.  All students were  allowed to bring their traditional food,  come to school dressed up in the national costume and they also could perform a national song,  dance or play on the instrument.  In that day there were  food form a lot of countries,  and it was served by IB students and also parents who were helping their children. Every student had to prepare for the international day.  I decided to bring “paklava”.  It is the national  food,  which is sweet.  People usually drink it with tea,  because of its sweetness.   I didn’t know how to bake it so my mom thought me and helped to bake it.  By doing that  I undertook new challenges   and also the International day was a new challenge for me.   To my mind by learning how to cook l also developed new skills. On that day IB students also had to think of the activities,  which they  had to plan.  Me,   Ester and Ilona  were in one group and that is why we decided that we will do the flag painting in the art room.  I worked collaboratively with them.  We helped a lot of students to make flags and also painted our own flags. Our activity also included face painting, which was very interesting and a lot of students liked having their flags painted on their faces.  Our group   planned and initiated those activities and in my opinion we also showed perseverance and commitment by running those activities. 

          After the activities all IB students went to set up a room where there were supposed to be food from a lot of countries.  There were variety of food,  l was glad that l could introduce my national food to other students because not a lot of people know about the cuisine of Azerbaijan.   A lot of students and teachers enjoyed eating and having fun but these was not all.  After that there had to be a performance in the hall.  There were a lot of nice performances.   Some of the students were dancing, singing playing on the different instrument.  I also performed by playing on piano.  This was also a challenge for me because l have never played in front of so many people, which made me very nervous.  

          Other outcomes, which weren’t present, are:

·      Increased  their awareness of their own strength and areas for growth.

·      Engages with issues of global importance.

·      Considered the ethical implications of their actions.

·      Developed new skills.

          I really enjoyed being on the International day, because l learned a lot of things about variety of countries by seeing their costumes and tasting their national food.