International Family Fun Night

This past week has been a busy one!!

Monday & Tuesday the week started with sorting books for a book sale at the school.  Every year the Parent Teacher Fellowship puts on a book drive.  The class that brings in the most books wins a pizza party.  The is the PTF's fundraiser for the year and always seems to be a big hit.

The sale goes on for 3 days and finishes up at the annual International Family Fun Night on Thursday (it was only a 4 day school week this week).  This is one of the school's biggest events.  Everyone shows up for it!!  Families come in traditional dress and bring food that represent their homeland.  And let me tell you, it was all good!

We start out the evening with a passport activity.  The kids receive a passport and were able to "visit" 6 different countries!  Each room also provided food typical of their homeland.

Brennan's crumpled up passport...

Complete with stamps of his "visit" around the world!

We had a USA room where Mississippi and Alaska were featured. And you could try out some gumbo!

Mmmmmm, gumbo!

 One of our German teacher's (in lederhosen) trying out some gumbo!

A polish student trying out an Alaskan Eskimo yo yo!

We had an India room.

Some Indian food was featured along with their yummy drink, the Mango Lassi!  Yum!

An Austria room.

A South Korea Room.

An Ethiopia room.

And a Peru room, but I guess my hubby didn't make it to that room because I didn't find any pictures!

Face of our school.

 A classmate and Brennan doing some Tae Kwon Do!

After the hour long passport activity, we headed to our auditorium for a cultural performance.  We had everything from Tai Chi to the Star Spangled Banner.

Korean drums!  Very cool!!

 An African dance.

 Our MC for the evening.

 Me getting ready to announce the book drive class winners.

 Tae Kwon Do.  A bit fuzzy, but they were moving all over.  Ha!

It was a fun evening!! But I am wiped out after doing all the advertising, book sorting, fun night planning, setting up and taking down.  Whew!  Obviously I had lots of help, but today is a day of rest!!  Well, and grocery shopping!!!  Have a great weekend!!