World Fair

1/29/2025 - Creativity

This year, I participated in World Fair with the Chinese Culture Club. Despite not officially being a part of club, I asked if I could participate with hosting with them, as I had last year, and they invited me to help them with their booth. I wore my mamianqun (马面裙), or horse-face dress the whole day, not having the ability to safely store the clothes throughout the school day nor go home and change, and it was fun greeting people in the dress.

Throughout the day, I needed to reset my hair-do, which was being held up by a hairpin. I didn't really know how to tie one, and so during my privilege period, Hannah and I researched how to tie the hairdo. We had to communicate and research the different creative methods that people had online. In the end, she helped me pull together a bun that she knew very well that would hold up for the whole day, and that's what we stuck with.

I wanted to participate both to be able to proudly represent my culture but also to be able to see my friends in their traditional dresses, learn about their cultures, and try their ethnic foods! 

LO7: Many 2nd generation immigrants like me sometimes feel disconnected from their original cultures, but also, its sometimes difficult even at school to expand past their own culture and make friends with people of other ethnicities; my main friend groups are Chinese. By wearing the mamianqun and interacting with people at the World Fair, I have the opportunity to both expand the horizons of other people as well as my own.