Multicultural Day

Multicultural Day is debatably the greatest day in the RVA school year for the following reasons:

1. Everyone dresses up to represent their home country and acts crazy.

2. From chai to lunch, we get to play outside.

3. We have a parade of nations that involves flags, different languages, lots of cheering, and 33 nationalities represented on stage.

4. It counts as one of our 180 school days.

Some of my students had been practicing a Korean fan dance for weeks:

The Titchies singing away (notice my Swiss girl in her awesome wig!):

Some of the 33 flags on stage:

And then, game time! The whole school was split into four colors: red, yellow, black, and white. Hilariously not PC, but the theme of the day was "all our precious in His sight." I was team leader of Red Team 1 and, while no one wanted to do any cheers with me, we still won a lot . . . contributing to an overall win by the RED TEAM! (We got to go to lunch first.)

Students competing against teachers in sumo wrestling:

Showing off some mad tininkling skills:

Giant games of twister:

We had a beautiful morning outside playing games . . . and then the rain poured all afternoon, perfect for relaxing movie time. That night it cleared up again for FIREWORKS! I was actually quite impressed with our little display, teachers running around the field lighting fuses while the whole community watched from the bleachers. My Swahili teacher, Tabitha, told me later that her mom thought it was gunshots . . . guess it needs to be advertised a bit better next time.