Warren's Abroad: Fun Fair 2013

Every fall KIA hosts an event called Fun Fair- a carnival like event open to the community. Each high school homeroom runs food and fun booths where the general public can spend their Fun Fair tickets to either play games or eat great food. It is a great opportunity for the school to open its gates to everyone and provide a great service to our both our Chinese and expat neighbors and friends.

This year Eric's homeroom class (the 10th graders) came up with an awesome booth called Trick or Treat where people, mostly kids, could come and cut a string hanging in the booth and receive whatever prize was on the other end. The trick was to pick the correct string because they were all tangled together so they never knew what they were going to end up with. They also hosted a skee ball booth, a balloon dart booth, and a booth where people were served juice and had to guess the flavors. Sounds weird, but it was actually very successful.

My homeroom class (the 11th graders) always have a "Soak a Teacher" booth. A poor teacher sits on a stool with a huge water balloon sitting in a basket over their heads, while contestants throw a ball at a target. Hit the target, soak the teacher. I had to sit in that booth last year. Thankfully, this year we had other volunteers! We also hosted cookie decorating, bracelet making, and mini-golf. Our food booths were curry rice bowls, cotton candy and popcorn. Yum.