UN week is a really fun time at the elementary school. It kicks off with an Indonesian parade and assembly and this year Alex was one of the performers. He was not thrilled about the headpiece.
This was the day after the late night at the clinic and this boy was not feeling the excitement.
After the parade, I couldn't wait to see him perform with the Angklung group. He'd taken a class after school to learn the traditional bamboo instrument and had been looking forward to this for weeks.
Nailed it! All the kids did great!
Throughout the week, the kids enjoyed lots of Indonesian activities and other events hosted by different countries. The big finale on Friday is the Parade of Nations and the UN day assembly. All the kids start on the soccer fields grouped by country and parade into the theater for the assembly.
...of course, this is my favorite one :)
The American kids just before their turn to perform.
This assembly is probably my favorite thing at PIE and something I'll miss next year when we don't have any more elementary kiddos. The choir kicked things off with a beautiful song about sharing the earth.
Many different countries performed skits, songs, and dances. Indonesia did a tribute to the Asian games, which were just in town.
The US kids sang the national anthem and then had some fun...
Korea did a fantastic Tae Kwan Do performance.
Iberoamerica (all the spanish speaking countries) had a big dance party
Japan did a karate dance
And then the kids all come back together singing "It's a Small World". Cue the tears. It's just beautiful. It's so special to celebrate what makes all of the kids and their cultures unique and different.
Afterwards, several of us moms helped out at the International Food Festival. All the different countries had donations of traditional foods for the kids to try. We served up mac and cheese, hot dogs, and chocolate chip cookies to lots of hungry kids.
The kids loved our table because half of it was desserts!
My very non-adventurous eater had a hot dog, nuggets, and a brownie. I'm not sure he even looked at any of the other tables.
To round out our celebration of America, we hit up Bubba's barbecue night at the American club. It is hard to beat some ribs and a Shiner.
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