Last night, was our school's UN Day concert. And of course, for an American curriculum school, a celebration on Obama's victory!
My class have been studying 'Bridge To Terabithia' as a class novel, which is set in the USA in the 1970's. The book is based around the friendship between a grade 5 girl and boy from different backgrounds and beliefs. There's loads of figurative language and songs of peace and freedom quoted (seeing as it was set around the Vietnam war era) , so we decided that it would be great to perform one of the songs for UN Day.
After a couple of weeks of practising at the end of lessons when we had 5 minutes to spare, we had our first performance last night and a second show today during school time.
One of the parents of my Dutch triplets took the video below of us singing today - it's a bit blurry but shows it quite well. The kids were dead nervous but did so well.
My class have been studying 'Bridge To Terabithia' as a class novel, which is set in the USA in the 1970's. The book is based around the friendship between a grade 5 girl and boy from different backgrounds and beliefs. There's loads of figurative language and songs of peace and freedom quoted (seeing as it was set around the Vietnam war era) , so we decided that it would be great to perform one of the songs for UN Day.
After a couple of weeks of practising at the end of lessons when we had 5 minutes to spare, we had our first performance last night and a second show today during school time.
One of the parents of my Dutch triplets took the video below of us singing today - it's a bit blurry but shows it quite well. The kids were dead nervous but did so well.
I was accompanying on guitar and two of the triplets were accompanying on the violin. My little boy from Pakistan was on the drums and the rest of my very culturally diverse little crew were singing and playing on the maracas and tambourines.
The second concert today was followed by an international food fair - I was very brave and tried a bit of everything (that didn't have meat!). Look at the colours on these food photos! The parents did such a good job.
It was a great day, only marred by the sudden death of one of our Indonesian staff, Pak Maulana, who worked down in the photocopying room - he fell ill last week with some intestinal problem, had surgery and they found he was riddled with cancer - he died on Tuesday. He was 41. The concert last night and today was dedicated to him.
This cancer thing just sucks.
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