International Day

Every day is international day at Lauren's school, but this week they had a special celebration on Wednesday. Parents decorated tables with information about their home country, kids dressed up in clothing representative of their country and parents cooked food and joined together for lunch. I was so impressed and amazed! This is such an amazing opportunity for the kids.

The innocence and purity of children is so apparent here. Everyday Lauren is in class with children from all over the world with different religions, different beliefs and different colored skin, but I don't think any of that ever enters the thoughts of the children. They see everyone as just their classmate and their friend, with no questions about anything else. They love that they are all different and it is truly amazing and a great model for how the world should be. I am very thankful and feel blessed that Lauren and Justin have the opportunity to have such a great start to their easily impressionable lives.

On international day the children each received a passport book. They then visited the tables set up by the parents and they were able to learn facts about the different countries. Then they received a sticker of that country's flag for their passport. They really enjoyed this. They also had musicians performing for them and learned some dances. Parents and children then enjoyed a tasty lunch of cuisine from all over the world. Unfortunately I was not able to put an informational table together since we still do not have our container of goods from the US, but I was able to put together some tasty dishes; Chicken and Cornbread Dressing, Blackberry Cobbler, and Rice Krispy Treats.

I think my favorite part of the day was when the children and parents all sang We Are The World. It was a wonderful celebration