It was Saturday morning. I woke up at 10 (I usually get up earlier to take advantage of my time, but this occasion I decided to relax a bit more, as I’d been very tired with that exhausting school week), ate my breakfast and took a bath. My mom was waiting for me; she asked me to accompany her to go to the supermarket.
After doing the shopping, my mom leaved me at the primary school because I had to help with the organization of the children’s festival. The first thing I did, once I’d greeted the few pals that were there at time, is help Vale Marun to fix the roulette.
Later, Gissel arrived and (as always) she started talking and talking and talking and talking. She has always something to say. Never stops. The point is that she was telling us the problem that took place with the cokes. This conversation was interrupted by Vale Marun’s blond wig and Roman toga, followed by the woman’s mask. It was so funny to see her with all this costume. She was unrecognizable, very strange but funny.
We were carrying some desks from one room to another bigger to make the ghost train when Flor come to ask me if I could take care of the “kermes” (I hope it’s well-spelled). The truth is that I didn’t know anything about that activity, and she was really a “great help” (sarcastically talking). She told me “you have this, this and that. Be creative and do something. Bye”. I was astonished. I even don’t know how it’s spelled that word, so you can imagine how creative I should be to organize that activity from which I had no idea about.
With a green bucket and 2 apples I prepared a game that consisted on children biting an apple that was floating in water to win a prize (which I decided it will be a box of candies). It was not as easy as it sounds. To bite the apple children had to submerge their heads in the water (hopefully it was a beautiful sunny day because if it had been a cold cloudy one children could have caught a cold). This was a very original game. It was funny to see the children trying to get that apple in less than 3 opportunities.
Another game was the one with 3 vessels and one ball. I put the ball under one vessel and mixed the three of them in order to confuse the children so that they didn’t guess were the ball was. But children were far cunning and they always knew which vessel had the ball and received a chewing “chupetín” as a reward. But I had some difficulties to carry on this game because the ball, apart from not being the small enough, it was painted with a fluorescent orange colour that was easily distinguished trough the vessel, that’s why I had to put one vessel upon another. Furthermore, these vessels were the white plastic ones, which are translucent. Luckily, I found some blue ones and used them. As I’d never practiced this hand’s movements the trick was not much good to get the children puzzled, but it was excellent to make them laugh.
Finally, I also took care of the roulette, which was a loved game by the girls, who spent a lot of money to get the prize, which was a simple chocolate bar. Next to these 3 games, there was an extra one in which children had to put into the mouth of 6 bottles 4 rings, if they achieved it they received an award.
Each time children wanted to play one of these games they had to pay $0.25, and I collected thousands of coins. These games were like a magnet. I didn’t stop working in the whole afternoon. It was very exiting.
Although I didn’t have any motion of what exactly was a “kermes” I deal in a great way with it. This idea is connected to that in the You 2.0 text, where it was developed the theme of the fear to unknown experiences. We always have to bear in mind this phrase: “We tend to regret the things we didn’t try more than those we did – even when we fail.”
