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Story by Kay Haas – Staff Reporter

Lee’s Summit North hosted a Cultural Festival on February the 17th. The four languages of LSN, Spanish, German, French, and Chinese, came together to create a festival with activities from each of the cultures. Each language club plans, researches, and helps at the actual festival. Some of the activities at the festival were Chinese Calligraphy, a crepe station, a potato cake station, and a pinata. 

   Valda Hsu, Mandarin Chinese teacher, believes that the Cultural Festival has more than one benefit for the students and the community.

   “All cultures come together and then you can easily see the similarities and then you can also see what each culture has that is uniquely theirs, it is fun to see why they celebrate certain things.” said Hsu. 

   The Cultural Festival is a great way for the students to show off their knowledge of the language and culture.

   “This helps them to retain knowledge about particular cultural events. This also means that by working together collaboratively you also solve problems, like practical things and how to show off certain things,” said Hsu. 

   The Cultural Festival is also a great place for members of the community to come and learn about the different languages.

   “It is also part of the effort of inviting families. They may come and say I want to know about this or I take part of this because of my heritage so that is fun to have families come and do that for us,” said Hsu. 

   The Cultural Festival is a great place for students and the community to come together and learn.

 

Photo courtesy of Valda Hsu