Talia as a Japanese geisha?

Okay, I don't think she was strictly a "geisha". I think we can say "Japanese lady".

Notice the balloon stuck to the stroller behind her. Wherever could that have come from??

For the End of Year show, Talia's preschool did it on the theme "Trip Around the World". They had Africa, Mexico, America, Alsace, Somoa (I think), India, Arabia and Talia's class was Japan.

They learned a song and I overhear one of the parents saying "my kid goes to a French-German school and comes home singing in Japanese???"

Here's all the fun;














See if you can spot the guy in the Chinese jacket. The German mom just arrived from Hong Kong pointed it out to me. The French always mix them up. I noticed that the chopsticks were Chinese too, the ones in their hair. Oh well!



It was held at the "Palais des Fêtes", which means actually "party building". As you can imagine, the local residents aren't amused living near it. Previously, this event had been held at the school itself with disasterous results. No one could see. French schools don't have proper stages like you find in the U.S. Also, unlike the U.S., there was no air conditioning and it was hot and crowded.

They opened the balcony, which they had hoped not to use because of the risk of any of the kids falling. There was absolutely no room and it was a big hall but filled to the gills. They requested that only adults go up there and for the most part, that was repected (or at most, the older siblings and tiny babies who didn't go anywhere). I stayed below with Davina and Daniel went upstairs with Ronnie. It was good as we had different angles of the same event.

As we have not figured out how to download the videos on his (he's hopeless and I'm not exactly a techy-and it's all in French!) I couldn't post any of Daniel's handiwork here.