A night around the world at Farragut High School
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USA table Ryan Deucker, Ana Blair Claunch, Reanna Gabel and Catherine Wiese. - Photos by Tammy Cheek
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Students perform K-Pop dance. - Photos by Tammy Cheek
Food, performances and information tables highlighted Farragut High School’s World Culture Night, held Thursday evening, Dec. 4, in the school’s Commons.
The event showcased the diverse cultures represented within FHS through its students, clubs and world language classes. Students, families and community members browsed tables featuring countries and regions including Korea, Canada, Argentina, Germany, India, Ethiopia, the Middle East, Palestine, Ecuador, Vietnam, the Philippines, France, China, Poland and the United States.
Participating clubs included Art Honor Society, Asian Culture Club, French Honor Society, German Honor Society, International Club, Latin Honor Society, Muslim Student Association and Spanish Honor Society.
Junior Selam Mengesha represented Ethiopia at one of the information tables.
“My parents came from Ethiopia. I was born here,” Mengesha said.
In addition to visiting the tables, attendees enjoyed face painting and sampled foods from around the world, including Vietnamese coffee, Mexican horchata, Polish kanapki (open-faced sandwiches) and sourdough bread, Italian baked ziti, Iraqi kebabs, French crepes, Chinese chicken fried rice and Vietnamese com chien trung (egg-fried rice), Indian samosas and American brownies.
The evening also featured a variety of student performances, including Julianne Hao performing a Chinese sword dance; Aneesh Pingali and Uma Seal presenting a traditional South Indian dance; Nahyeon Cho with a
K-pop dance group; Khanh Nguyen performing a Vietnamese dance; Grace Preston singing a Romanian song; Sofia Vander Dussen, Ella Roetgger and Sana Kado performing another
K-pop routine; Ryan Deucker, Audra Nelson and Maya Ontiveros leading a USA line
dance; Aryan Sharma, Edward Zhao, Andy Michaelides and Edam Faller performing Greek music as a clarinet quartet; and teacher, Allison Maldonados, and Bahati performing Spanish-language music.
