Sweet holiday fun
Some Carolina students spent the last day of classes constructing their best gingerbread houses during the Carolina Union Activities Board’s annual Holiday Fun Fest.
On any other day, Kristen McGreevy is a sophomore biology and biostatics student.
But on Dec. 2, she channeled her inner engineer as she focused on the proper placement of beams and pillars to support heavy layers of gumdrop bottoms and Kit Kat bars.
For McGreevy, the key to any gingerbread house is a solid structure.
“You don’t want it to wiggle,” she said.
McGreevy and hundreds of other Carolina students spent the last day of classes constructing their best gingerbread houses during the Carolina Union Activities Board’s annual Holiday Fun Fest.
“It’s a CUAB tradition on LDOC,” said Nylah Jimerson, CUAB Fun Chair. “We’ve also supplied other holiday activates like the Kwanza coloring sheet, with the dreidel, you can make your own reindeer. It’s really awesome.”
Taking a break from the end of semester busy-ness, students streamed into the Carolina Union’s Great Hall to construct their houses out of graham crackers and a large spread of candy.
“They’re looking really awesome,” Jimerson said. “I’m seeing some two-story ones, some with nice chimneys. I saw one that had a nice little pathway and a sidewalk going on.”
While some meticulously planned their house, others designed as they went. And although students were competing for prizes, most opted to build for taste rather than looks.
“It’s really fun, but our house doesn’t look that aesthetic — but it looks delicious,” said Kelsey Bhasker. “We went with that looks yummy.”
