National & Liberation Day 2012

This past Wednesday was our school's National and Liberation Day celebration. In elementary, we celebrated by having an extended flag ceremony, and each class performed a very Kuwaiti style song/dance. The elementary secretary and one of the class assistants taught a different dance to each class during two periods per week for the last month in preparation for this event. I even went with them on a few occasions to help out, which ended up being really fun. I also went to one of the local shops before the performances to find a unifying theme or costume item, and I came up with some butterfly wings done in the colors of the Kuwait flag. The girls looked so cute!



 Here's our hallway bulletin board. We made the shape of the Kuwait flag from little country outlines and camels that have the girls' names on them.

We had lots of treats (cupcakes with Kuwait's current flag and the old flag's colors) and it was pretty much a non-teaching day. It seems like we've had a lot of those lately... Here you see me with J, whose mom is an assistant in our Early Childhood program at the school. They are a fun family! (You can see her mom in the red head scarf in the video, taking pictures.)

This is a great month for people in the car detailing business:

 As much as I'm tempted to complain about certain aspects of these celebrations, they really are something to see. I'll be sure to post pictures if we see anything crazy tomorrow.