Finally the day of the great Irish Fair arrived! After hours of work everything was set up for the visitors: shining pictures, maps and stories taped on display boards, the smell of Irish food in the air and Irish music softly playing in the background.

But as always, time passed faster than anybody wanted it to. The programme was over, we had somebody win the prize in our lottery, almost all the food had been sold and even the last few visitors had left. Our Irish Fair looked empty without people coming and wandering around. The time had come to clean up and put everything away! With bleeding hearts we had to take all the projects off the display boards, garlands, posters and tons of ballons had to leave the place and pictures had to be given back to their owners. The display boards had to be taken apart and locked in a room, and all the tables had to be carried back to their original place. Nobody was as motivated as we had been for the preparation had started, but understandably it is much more fun to prepare a party than to tidy up the place after the party is over. The good part about tidying up was the little left-overs of the delicious food, so we could build up our strength to carry away the last tables and display boards.

Leaving the area in front of the Audimax, it looked empty and all the glamour and shine of the Irish Fair was gone, but it stays in our mind as a project of team-work and just a nice day of sharing.

Lena Zimmermann