Saturday, January 30, 2010

Today was the Fete National de Jeunesse.



It was basically a day of awesomeness, in which each youth group in the church did a small performance.  Lots of singing, some dancing, and some zumba as well!  I went to "do a repetition" with a handful of classmates, then we waited till it was our turn to go.  But when it was our turn, our group had dramatically downsized…I'm not sure where everybody went but there were only 5 of us who performed. 


Nonetheless, the crowd loved it and asked us to do a second song, even though we were told to only do one since we were running behind schedule.  We did.  And an old lady who, sadly, does not have shoes and asks for money a lot and has some kind of story about the hospital, came and joyfully danced right along with us, and some other groups too.  At first it was really funny, but they told her to move because she was getting in the way.  We also had a kid pretend to video us using a large rock as a camcorder. 



The crowd was laughing hysterically, as were we as we danced.  Sr. Charlotte jumped out of her "seat of honor" and joined in to zumba with us. 



It was a fantastic time!  Afterwards, we had the usual "afterparty welcome" in which selected guests are given a Fanta. 


There was singing and some of us got up to dance with a bunch of kids, me included. 

Love it!