Last Wednesday was the international day, the plans of which you might have read. The day was quite the success. Klaus also had the last minute brainwave of wearing tweed jackets and berets. As luck would have it, my mother had sometime ago showcased to me my dad's largely unused (a lack of use quite justified) tweed jacket and my brother had a beret, and so I cycled to school wearing a tweed jacket and a beret, with a union jack fluttering from my backpack, befuddling locals and commuters alike.

I arrived at school, waved casually to the smokers outside and went to class for some silly UN quiz at which our class failed at miserably, listing for example one of the UN goals to be "Get rid of Polio". Then we listened to a teacher tell us about Nepal and our school's charity activities there, which was mildly interesting but did not compare to Tuesday's Darfur lecture which I might tell you about another time.

Finally it was time to set up our table. A triumphant display of quintissential Britishness, utterly overshadowing the other feeble "colonies." We filled our table with our wares, put the kettle on and turned up our iPod speaker system blaring Rule Britannia. Indeed soon the area was littered with people holding cups of tea, and we were constantly filling the kettle as I exploited my British accent to tempt more tea drinkers. Once our time was up we were only left with a few bags of 'Prince of Wales' and 'Earl Grey'.

What followed was the international show, which feautured some exchange students introducing themselves. Sodfoot (the new name of elf boy, as per The Crappy Little Elf Name Generator) made the crowd burst into a resounding bout of cheers and applause when he mentioned that the people in the area from where he came from were largely liberals and all err... 'disliked' George Bush.

We were also treated to a Iadio (Japanese swordsmanship) show as well as a host of bands, the most notable of which, called 'The Lilac Shamrock (Anonymous cover name courtesy of The Damned Hippy Name Generator. Who needs creativity when you have name generators?) Experience", played an excellent six minute song by Liquid Tension Experiment. Following this was a slightly modified band: "Lilac Shamrock And The Slightly Worse Virtuosos",  Lilac Shamrock being an apparently  legenadary musician at the school. As the show announcer made clear: "...but Lilac Shamrock is still not satisfied!" it was not over yet, and we were treated to "The Lilac Shamrock Solo Project" which was greeted by huge applause during the pause after the first ambient key. The then show drew to a close  but I was nevertheless to attend my last lesson: PE, particularily annoying as it meant more hauling around of all our table contents.