Geography Fair
In our school when you are in 7 grade, every year there is a geography fair. In geography class the whole year we learn about a country and in May you do a big display of things and food from your country, so other grades and your parents see what you have been doing in class. I did the geography fair last year and I just loved it, I cant say it was easy doing it and it was very stressful, but at the end I was really happy of how my project turned out. My stress for the project started since the first day of seventh grade, our geography teacher thought it would be best to give each student the country they were going to do, from the first day of school so they got used to it and had more time to prepare for the fair in May. Getting the country you wanted was practically impossible, the teacher put the names of all the countries in a box, and you had to pick one without looking, you had practically the same possibility of getting the country you wanted as to winning the lottery. Like everyone else I wanted a big country everyone know, because it would be easier to get things to put on your display table and you would at least know were your country was located, because some of the countries in that box I had never heard them before. I was in the last class of the day, and some of my friends had gotten very got countries I wished I had picked. When I sat in the back of the classroom to wait for the teacher to pull out the box everyone was waiting for, my hands started sweating cold, I felt sick of my stomach, I just wanted to get it over with. Each minute made me more nerves, I just wanted the filling of desperation to end, but I felt as if the minutes before the bell rang lasted for hours. It was my turn to pick a piece of paper, and when I opened it I couldn’t believe what I got. Nepal, where was that? I didn’t want to study that country for a whole year. I guess I was really lucky, and when I remember that day I still cant believe anyone would actually want to change my country with hers. Lets just say I have a really good friend, which well… wanted to learn something new because she begged me to change Italy for Nepal. Now that am writing about it, I think I would have liked to stay with Nepal, is that Italy I already knew about, and had gone to visit, but I still was happy with how my projected ended. The fair was really cool, I cant say anything went wrong, but I did get frustrated when all of my classmates were building their booths and my parents hadn’t gotten to my school to help me. Apart from that, I think the Geography Fair was a success, and if I had the chance, I would definitely do it again.
