I was reading a friend's blog, her name's Kate, and she wrote about the upcoming "World Peace Day" and all the plans she had with her students to celebrate this unique holiday. I was inspired and decided to do the same.
I googled "famous quotes about peace" and was given a long list of wonderful quotations from Buddha to Martin Luther King Jr. I put the quotes into google translate so my students wouldn't go, "Oh, jeez. More English. Great," and did my best to correct google's inevitable mistakes (to be fair to google, I missed some too). I then printed them, cut each one out individually, rolled it like a snail shell and put all the curly little pieces in a basket. I then made a poster with "World Peace Day - September 21" in Bulgarian and brought the whole production to school the next day.
I hung my poster on the wall near the entryway, held the basket full of fun quotes in my hand, and waited. As the students came in they saw me with a big smile on my face, they saw the poster, saw the basket and immediately wanted a "ксметча"(something they have in Bulgaria similar to a fortune inside a cookie at a chinese restaurant). I also had these rub-on tattoos with peace signs on them for the kids to take and put on on their face just like me (which I'm sure the other teachers just loved). They read the quotes, got really excited about who their quote was from, and then exchanged.
"Miss Hadaway, who's John F. Kennedy?"
"He was an American President."
"OH! LOOK! I have an American president! All you have is the Dalai Lama."
Честит Международен Ден На Мира!
-Age
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