Children’s Day – July 27
This Sunday we celebrated Children’s Day. This is a public holiday in Vanuatu. The kids had been preparing for a couple of weeks with Paula and Mrs Katrina and all the Mamas busy making new shirts and dresses for all the children (matching blue and pink!) We then all met together to paint them.
The children all gathered in the morning dressed up in their new clothes and marched to the chapel with a banner and balloons. As we got close a string band was playing and they sang songs until the children arrived outside the chapel. The parents then put salu salu around each of their children’s necks as well as sprinkling perfume and powder.
Roger gave the children’s talk during church – mostly in BislamaJ - three stories about lions.
After church we went home briefly to bring our food back to share – and then enjoyed a small feast together - including a roast pig – the children being the honoured guests.
After this the children dressed up to present their book characters. Each child had been given a new story book a few weeks prior. Their task was to prepare a book review then make a costume representing their favourite character. They bravely took turns standing in front of the audience, in costume, talking about their character.
A small gift was then presented to each child and the Celebratory Cake cut. Roger had been commissioned to do the cake but spoke sweetly to Paula for “a little” assistance J
All in all a fun Celebratory day and a neat way to bless all the pikinini here
This Sunday we celebrated Children’s Day. This is a public holiday in Vanuatu. The kids had been preparing for a couple of weeks with Paula and Mrs Katrina and all the Mamas busy making new shirts and dresses for all the children (matching blue and pink!) We then all met together to paint them.
The children all gathered in the morning dressed up in their new clothes and marched to the chapel with a banner and balloons. As we got close a string band was playing and they sang songs until the children arrived outside the chapel. The parents then put salu salu around each of their children’s necks as well as sprinkling perfume and powder.
Roger gave the children’s talk during church – mostly in BislamaJ - three stories about lions.
After church we went home briefly to bring our food back to share – and then enjoyed a small feast together - including a roast pig – the children being the honoured guests.
After this the children dressed up to present their book characters. Each child had been given a new story book a few weeks prior. Their task was to prepare a book review then make a costume representing their favourite character. They bravely took turns standing in front of the audience, in costume, talking about their character.
A small gift was then presented to each child and the Celebratory Cake cut. Roger had been commissioned to do the cake but spoke sweetly to Paula for “a little” assistance J
All in all a fun Celebratory day and a neat way to bless all the pikinini here
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Hi Roger and Paula (Davy and Grace too). Michelle Osborne here - I'm just starting to get into blogging and understanding RSS feeds. Loving your updates. Plan to get organised about writing to you all!! Hope you are well - lots of love from the cold wet Osbornes
(Christchurch has had a VERY harsh winter - roll on warm weather!)
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