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By Bill Kossler
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
The Third Annual International Festival filled the halls of both Rappahannock County Public schools last Wednesday. The festival is sponsored by the Rappahannock County Public Schools, with help from the Rappahannock Association for the Arts and Community (RAAC), the Curriculum Enrichment Program (CEP) and Headwaters. While open to the public the last two years, this year the festival was just for the students, not the public, because last year not all the students were able to attend, and opening it to the public would compromise the core goal of providing some global experience and exposure to the children according to the festival’s organizers.
The student’s gain was the public’s loss this year, as the festival was a tremendous success and enormously fun, interesting and educational for all who were involved. Travel the world on a shoestring
Classes chose a country, and turned their classrooms into cultural, geographical, culinary and political displays to educate visitors about their country. Students were issued passports, and “traveled” around the world, getting their passports stamped in each “country” as they went.
In the elementary school, there were displays and maps drawn up by the students, and activities, such as coloring in cutouts of a tropical Central and South American bird called the quetzal. Enthusiasm was evident among the travelers in the halls, and one student volunteered that the Argentina room was not to be missed. Over in “Argentina” maps, newspaper
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