Last Friday this guy in my class,
Matteo, told me to dress up and bring my friends to the Royal Hall Pub at
6.30pm that night. From all the times we have hung out I know that when he
plans something, the night is going to be amazing. I asked the others if they
wanted to join me and they said yes, so we all dressed up and went to the pub. There
were pretty many people there, so we had to look around a bit before we found
Matteo and the others` table. When i asked him what we were going to do that
night he burst in to laughter with all our other friends. He then explained us
that the Larkhall Festival was starting today, which is the biggest happening
in the whole year. I had heard an older couple talking about it on the bus, but
they only talked about children's choirs and so I thought that it was a boring
festival. Boy, was i wrong!
We started the night at the pub
as a pre-party before we got to the actual party at Casino Royal a few blocks
away. It was filled with people all with a drink in one hand and a dancing
partner in the other. The party was called “Dress to impress; an evening of
roulette and cocktails,” and I must say the party was as it`s name. All men
wore ties and all women dresses and we were much underdressed, but our friend`s
father owned the club so we got in anyway. Oda, Matteo and I quickly got in to
the gambling where we won cash that we lost quickly to the bar. When we got
tired of that we found the others again on the dance floor with Marius being
the main attraction dancing like no one else I have ever seen. After a while
the music got turned down and a man stood up on the bar desk and greeted us all
to the opening of the Larkhall Festival. Then the party continued for a bit
before we got sent home to rest for tomorrow.
The next morning we met the
others at St Saviours Church after breakfast to be introduced to a new
tradition they had. We each got a white mask who we would decorate just as we
wanted with colors and feathers and whatever we wanted. Then we were off to
walk in the Alice Park Parade, whoever
she was. The parade was mostly just children as the parents usually look at
their children marching, but anyone who wanted to could join. It was a short
distance to march, but Larkhall isn`t that big so it probably couldn`t be any
further if they wanted to keep it in the city.
After the Parade we went off to
Alice Park (wow, I need to find out who she is) for a big painting competition
were you paint on the pathways. It was not really a competition, but they gave
prizes to the ones they liked the best, so we had to win something. We could
not be more than six on a group so we had to split up in two teams. My team
stared painting a huge, red dragon flying over a bright blue sea with a ship on
it. We almost finished in time before the prizes were given, and even though our
painting was uneven and not finished we got the prize for most creative. Our mates
on the other team had painted a garden with flowers and bird and got the prize
for best details.
Next we went in to town again for
the food festival at Larkhall Inn Garden. The garden was enormous with willows
and birds and then I realized that this was the garden the other team had
painted. It was beautiful, and the food was so good. There were local farmers
and food makers both selling and giving free tastes of so much food. This one
farmer sold the best carrots I have ever tasted, so I spent rest of the day eating
endless of carrots from a bag I bought from him. There was also a “Bake Off”
where all the bakeries who didn`t win was free for everyone to take. Oda was
first in and manage to take a whole chocolate cake for her self.
The rest of the day we just walked
around at New Oriel Hall trying all the different activities and wearing them
all. They had many “make it your self” activities such as print makings, still
life drawing, make your own book and much more. My favorite was the one where
you made your own book because I made it myself and it is the only one like it
in the world. This book is now my notebook for school where I write down any tests
or homework that are given, so I do use it every day.
We did get pretty tired of
walking around trying all there was, so we decided to head back to Royal Hall
for dinner. Before we got our food we all had to show each other everything we
made that day so there was a lot of laughing coming from our table. We all ate
both dinner and dessert before we went home to rest.
The day was all so great and I
met so many new people and did so much fun that I wouldn`t stop smiling before I
fell asleep. We all looked forward to the next day wondering what activities there
were going to be and how fun it was this whole day.
The next day and the day after were
just as exiting, but I will never forget the Saturday as it was the best day in
my whole exchange year.
Peace out!
sources:
http://www.google.com/imghphttp://www.larkhall-festival.org.uk/
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