I remember my high school days. We used to celebrate UN day every 24th of October. I remember we'd start early in the morning. The morning chill didn't stop anyone from their enthusiasm; everyone was having fun decorating the classrooms. We'd put in all our efforts to try to make the place look like different life-sized postcards that you could actually walk into.
Other classes crafted costumes from different countries for dolls in full detail. I remember we'd play loud music which made everyone more lively, and we'd sing along to songs while working. Later in the day, we'd change into colorful costumes. Students would go around the school grounds. Some would go into the 'life-sized postcards'. Some would go and have a parade, and they would wave
twirler flags from different countries. There was dancing and fun all over the place.
Exhibits showed everyone's creativity. Different talent contests displayed unity and hard work. I remember that our class would never win at any contests, even though we put all our efforts in it. And it was very exhausting, yet it was enjoyable.
We always thought that everything we did was worth all our efforts even if some of us exhausted too much money with all those art materials that we used. At the end of the day, the people would go out of the school gates, still with the smiles on their faces. It was, for many of us, another one of those days to remember. I'd remember leaving those banners, and those pretty
mini flags decorated outside the buildings, still fluttering in the warm afternoon breeze...
How nostalgic. But a lot of people at that time probably didn't even know what that day was really all about that it was the day when the world celebrates and remembers the value of peace and equality, self-determination and freedom.
by:
The Flagman
