Q: What is your project?

Lou Grafleman: “Our activity for Rwanda is a high jump. We’re going to have meter sticks taped to the wall and you’re going to have to see how high you can jump, and we’ll mark how high you get, because the highjump is a very popular in Rwanda.  [For our food], we have dried plantain chips to eat when you come to our booth.”

Katie Carnes: “One is traditional foods from Japan, and the other is a project on chichen itza and one of the historical games they used to play there. I like my Spanish project more, because it’s a bit more developed [than my Japanese one].”

Q: Do you recommend taking your language?

Grafleman: “I absolutely recommend people taking French. We live right next to Canada, and there are a lot of French speakers in Canada. It’s very common in most of Africa, and widely spoken in Europe. I would recommend it, it’s a very fun language to take.”

Carnes: “[I recommend both.] I would say Spanish is more useful for day to day, but Japanese is really cool. I’m in Spanish four, so short conversations could happen. I’m in Japanese one so I don’t know much of the language [yet.]”

Q:Are you competitive about this?

Grafleman: “I think it would be really cool to win. I think we have a good chance, we have a fun activity. I think the competitiveness of it will draw people in. But there are some other really good French booths, so we’ll just have to see.”

Carnes: “Yes and no. It would be nice [if we won], but if it doesn’t happen it doesn’t happen.”

Q: What is your country?

Grafleman: “My country is Rwanda in Southeast Africa. We all got to draw out of a hat to choose our countries. I was kinda hoping for Belgium. I know that’s a basic French speaking country, but I don’t actually know too much about it.”

Carnes: “I did one [project] on Mexico and one on Japan because I’m taking two languages. I decided to choose Mexico based off of one of the seven wonders, which is the Chichen Itza based in Mexico.”