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Winter
Hill Community School celebrated it's student's diversity by hosting a
Multicultural Festival for students and families and staff.
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By James Reddick
The
last week of school is always a cause for celebration for elementary
and high school students. At the end of June, the two months of free
time that lies ahead seems like an a span that surely will never end.
At the Winter Hill Community School, the penultimate day of school
provided even more reason to celebrate: the multicultural fair.
Generously catered, by donation, by 15 restaurants around Somerville,
from Chipotle to House of Tibet to Rodizio Bakery, the diverse menu
mirrored the range of cultures of the parents and children in
attendance. "My favorite food is definitely pizza," said one elementary
school student, who ran off to play with his friends before providing
his name, with a plate full of rice and beans, pad thai and Brazilian
sweets.
In a city in which over 29% of the population was born
outside of the country, its diversity is to be heralded. Since the
city's foundation, immigrants have been a cornerstone of Somerville's
economy and of its character. Angelo Fedele, a 5th-grader whose family
is of European descent, astutely said that the wide range of cultures
represented at his school "helps you know what other cultures do.
Diversity means a lot of people having fun," he added–an assertion
hard to refute amidst the salsa dancing and plates filled with
delicious food from every continent imaginable.
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