Friday we celebrated Carnaval at the school next to me. It was excellent! Since I spend a lot more time at this school (and teach 7 classes here, as opposed to two at the other school), I know the kids a lot better.Photo: Getting dressed up... Catherine did Margot's make up: a black eye, a scar, and a bloody bandage!
Photo: With some of my 7-8 year old students!
It was great to see them all dressed up and to have a few hours to just hang out with them and the other teachers. It started in the playground where we gathered to wait until everyone was ready.
While we waited, the kids played and some of them had brought bags of confetti, which they threw on people (quite often the teachers...) until the ground was multi-colored.
Photo: CONFETTI!!
Photo: Emmanuelle's 5th grade class
Once everyone was ready, we paraded down the streets of town--getting many strange looks from the drivers going past who must have wondered why kids were dressed up in mid-March (Carnaval is in February...). Some of the kids had maracas and tambourines and many of them were singing. Video: Parading down the street...
We made a stop out in front of the pre-school, so that the little kids could see the costumes and listen to a few songs, sung by the older kids. Then we returned to the school where there was a feast (crêpes and other cakes which had been made by parents and brought into the school) and music and plenty of time to run around like crazy kids.
Photo: One of the two tables of food! And it was completely cleaned out in under an hour! Video: Mmmm...Crêpe time! :-)
I dressed up as a hippie and was asked many times what that was (even though some of the kids were dressed up as hippies...) and I also got a lot of comments on my 5-fingers running shoes. No one could believe that I use them to go running ("What?! Not tennis shoes?!") It was a wonderful afternoon!
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