Photo By: Rachel Lynn AldrichHannah Write (left) and Sierra Pruitt, representing Mexico, prepare for the alliance session to start. The students were assigned their countries three weeks earlier and have been studying international economic concepts since then.
The aroma of meatballs wafted from a booth labeled “The Kingdom of Sweden.” By one wall, a student standing by a table labeled “India” reached down and adjusted the swath of colorful cloth comprising her “sari,” while “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” could be heard from the direction of the South Africa booth.