I’m backblogged but I promise the Thanksgiving update will come shortly. Yes, we had one, and it was fun.
I did you all a disservice the other day, and I hope you forgive me. If I knew it was going to be such a spectacular evening, I would have taken video of the whole thing.
Friday night the 21st was the annual program put on by the four youngest grades (if I remember correctly). Some classes did some choreographed dances, one to a song called something like “I Love You, Blessed Paraguay” (Rohayku!) that was sort of emotional for me even. Another class did a choreography to What A Wonderful World – my least favorite song, probably ever. What made it amusing was they put up a screen to show a video of the song with the words in spanish, only the projector was *behind* the screen. An engineer *not* was the one who did that. The words came out backwards.
I can’t explain how precious the two youngest grades were. One (I think Kindergarten) did this amazing musical involving a princess and some knights, an annoying lady in waiting, and someone who becomes a prince. It was about 30 minutes long, and while it was totally done as a recording that the kids mouthed, it was a spectacular piece of low-tech theater. The kids looked so good in their little medieval costumes (the throne was a chair covered in tin foil), and the kid who became a prince was so stinking excited to become prince, I thought he was going to knock someone in the face with his scepter. The princess was beautiful, which honestly is a little disheartening. There are tons of cute girls in the class, so how did they pick a princess? Well, she just so happened to be the most beautiful one in the class (blonde hair, fair skin…totally fairy tale princess), and my friend told me she is the image of beauty to a Paraguayan. It kind of made me sad a bit. I feel like Paraguayans don’t think highly enough of themselves.
Then there was the preschoolers. It sounded like these kids recorded a script beforehand and then acted it out. It was ridiculous! I couldn’t believe how well they did. I told Jason it reminded me of a Charlie Brown show. I loved every minute of it. The kids were dressed as palm fronds, a donkey, horse, sheep, parrot, moon, and a nativity scene with a real baby. It was so adorable. And one of the fronds kept wiggling his leaves in Jesus’ face, and though it wasn’t scripted, it was precious.
I’ll make sure I take my camera to the next set of presentations.
-j
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