This weekend, Luther College held its annual Ethnic Arts Festival, and I attended. I thought it was a great opportunity to increase cultural awareness and ultimately make me a more sensitive person. It's important to the future teacher in me because the festival, and especially the talent show, got me thinking about how I can incorporate multicultural activities into my classroom. Nearly all the acts in the show focused on ethnic music and dance, and I think it would be a fantastic thing for me to incorporate some of the things I heard and saw this weekend into my curriculum. The million-dollar question is: how? How can I teach my students about Indian classical singing and African dance? Just because I saw someone play the Chinese Zither doesn't mean I can play it well enough to demonstrate for my kids, or that I can play it at all. Also, who's to say I would be able to find a Zither to play? Maybe this is where technology comes in handy. But watching a video of someone playing an ethnic instrument is nothing like watching it live. Maybe some of the people I meet at Luther College will be willing to come into my classroom and help raise cultural awareness through music and dance. After all, I had several friends in the talent show last night. The next problem is where do I fit this into my schedule? As a middle school orchestra teacher, I will have so many other things to cover, and many teachers find that they do not have time for multicultural education. Can I let time be an excuse? And which things do I omit in order to include a unit on multicultural music? All these questions have been on my mind lately, and I hope that when I enter the education field, I will be able to answer them and put my answers into practice.