- By Times’ Junior Journalist Alina Jiang
Bucklands Beach Intermediate School recently hosted an event called Cultural Market Day, where many hard-working students worked together to sell food items either from their own culture or a culture they looked up to.
There were many different snacks being sold by stallholders, from sweet Tanghulu (a Chinese snack) to a delicious lolly cake-or a cupcake, to a small bag of sweets.
The event ended up letting students try foods from many different cultures!
To become a stallholder, you would have to attend meetings, design a poster (which would be displayed in the Bucklands Beach Intermediate Library), and work together with a group of students – that you could choose – to make the food items.
Then those students who would be purchasing items during the Cultural Market Day would exchange a specific amount of money into a debit card which would be marked as the money was spent.
They also could look at the posters before the day to decide on what they would be purchasing.
The event began as soon as the final lunch-eating bell rang. Many students sprinted towards the Kowhai Courts where the Cultural Market Day was being hosted, debit cards in hand.
Soon the courts were buzzing with noise, cheerful shouts in the air, and a crowd of students waiting in line to purchase food.
As one of the stallholders, my stall wasn’t selling too well at first, but as more familiar faces appeared upon the crowd, our items began to sell out slowly and after a while we were sold out!
Some of the more popular stalls that sold out quicker were the stall selling boba, the one selling different coloured cupcakes and the one selling Tanghulu.
This event gave the chance to many enthusiastic students to practise their skills and to participate in something they could work together to do and to complete.
In my opinion Cultural Market Day was a really fun event to participate in and if I could I’d try it again next year!
- Alina Jiang is in year 7 at Bucklands Beach Intermediate School
