Bowling Green High School celebrates Holidays from Around the World event
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – Wednesday afternoon at Bowling Green High School, 130 students from 17 different countries around the world held a celebration, teaching their peers about the various holidays they celebrate.
Students set up in the basketball arena, auxiliary gym and the performing arts center to share food, games, information and presentations about their cultures and holidays.
The celebration gave students at Bowling Green High a great opportunity to learn more about not only different cultures but their classmates as well.
“Here at Bowling Green High School, we look at our diversity as a strength,” said principal Kyle McGraw. “We learn more from people who are different than people who are just like us. And so to be able to share our different cultures with one another gives our students a great opportunity to learn,” McGraw added.
Two Bowling Green students were selected to give presentations about their home countries and their cultures.
Senior Byaobe Matendo is from Tanzania and talked about his home country, its history, where he lived, different kinds of clothing and entertainment. For him, sharing who he is and where he came from was one of the most important parts of the day.
“It’s fun to share who you are and to share where you’re from. But the best part is to know who you really are inside. I’m a guy who likes to share love to everyone and also to make them laugh,” Matendo said.
Learning about where your peers come from and their different cultures greatly benefits the students of Bowling Green High School.
Not only will it help them learn better and get to know their classmates better but it will also benefit them when they go out into the real world and meet people from all walks of life.
“In the real world, we’re going to be exposed to all sorts of people from different countries, people from different cultures. And so the ability to interact with and understand those countries, those cultures, really does give our kids a leg up when they leave here,” McGraw said.
