Community Day

Community Day! A new day for us. We have never heard of this day before but apparently it is a day everyone looks forward to every year. It is actually the day where you recognize the "president" of the school but Fr. Seba (our president) has decided to make it a day for everybody. The day begins with dressing his car with ribbons, banners, pictures, etc., him being driven into the school cafeteria, and we all have morning prayers with song. The day continues with games and ends with a costume party/performances.

Fr. Seba's tiny van. Everyone told us they were driving it through the school, the halls, and into the cafeteria through the regular sized door. We thought they were crazy...

BUT they made it through the door.

Our costumes... Katie put on some face paint and dressed more of a traditional African tribes woman. Pat put on his bed sheet, slicked back his hair.

Pat then realized when he finished dressing up that he looks like Jesus. The children all started calling him "Yesu" (Jesus).

There are some donated clothing bags which the children look through to find costume clothing. The only thing is, the clothing is all woman clothing. So, about 80% of the boys dressed as women. They all wore dresses, some wore high heels, and they all stuffed their chests. The other boys just put a sweatshirt in the stomach to look like a "grown-up "man, or stuffed their butt to look like a "grown-up" man.