Elliott Times: October 2013

Here is our crew before school-all wearing clothes from our China trip this summer! Ashley's dress came from a silk factory that we visited and the chopsticks in her hair came from PF Changs here!

Ashley and her buddy Hannah!

Ashley with the school counselor who moved from Korea this summer

Some Indian friends of ours

Other ELC kids lining up for the parade with their classes

Below is a girl in a red, blue, white and yellow dress that our first year here Ashley thought was Snow White-really it is a national costume from Venezuela

Below are some of the 5th grade teachers-the one you can't see much of is Scott's teacher-a well traveled American who has taught in several foreign countries. Her costume is from Mauritania-yes I had to ask and it is on the North western coast of Africa and she lived there for a while.

Here is Ryan on the track with his class

I love this girl's red, white and blue dress-representing the Philippine flag

Related Arts teachers watching the parade

Below is another Philippine flag dress and a fancy headdress

Below is Scott with a new classmate from Turkey

Ashley's class trying to get assembled for a picture

They went back to class, changed clothes, and had snack

then we walked over to the gym for the culture fair

Ashley and some friends making New Zealand kiwi birds

A miner from the South African table

Philippine dancers-moms of students

Indian moms dancing

Ashley was proud of the stamps in her passport

A classmate of Ashley's showing of her crown from the Netherlands

Ashley attempting tininkling-a Philippine dance

The American table-with a football theme this year. Ashley made a pom pom

Her class going back to their building

Students volunteered to learn the South African gumboot dance, done by the miners to pass the time while they worked. It was cool to watch and the South African ambassador attended also!