Sunday, November 21, 2010

Harry Potter

It may sound lame, but I had one of the best intercultural bonding experiences of my life last week when I went to watch Harry Potter.
The first part of the 7th movie recently came out and Bill (Texas) had the brilliant idea of having a school trip to go and see it.
It seemed that everyone agreed that Bill's idea was awesome because 170 people went!
And almost everyone dressed up.

Picture this:
170 teens from every continent, wearing capes and waving sticks, pouring out of 3.5 buses, trouping through a mall singing the Harry Potter theme song and swarming into the theatre taking up all but 20 of the seats.

It was so much fun!
All day people were running around campus searching for the final touches for their outfits. There were multiples of many characters (such as Harry and Draco) but lots of people were more creative and dressed as spells or brooms or as the golden snitch.

In preparation for the movie, I started reading the 7th book out loud with a friend, Jessie. unfortunately we didn't even get half way and so we ended up reading it out loud by flashlight on the bus ride there.

Here are a few of the costumes.

Cecilia (England) as Hermione, Almog (Israel) as Professor Trelawny, and Bill (Texas- the mastermind of the event) as James Potter

Hans (the Netherlands) as Fred... or George and Sam (England) as ... the other twin

Tom (Texas) as Sirius Black, Jessie (Wales) as Luna Lovegood, and Val (usa) as a ravenclaw student
Iris (Albania) as Professor Trelawny, and Nora (Norway) as Bellatrix

Me (as Lavender Brown) and Jessie


Kim (the Netherlands) as Hermione and Saul (usa) as Cedric

And here is the group (most of us)

if you haven't seen the film... grab a pair of glasses, and a stick and go see it!

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