Sing Noel

Last Tuesday night we had our end-of-the-year concert and play for the
Village and some visitors. We had planned all along that we would use
candle light. It was a good thing because the electricity was out the
whole time. It was beautiful, although it is a little difficult to
see the expressions on such black little faces.

There was singing, 2 and 3 part rounds, "Go Tell it on the Mountain,"
"Amen", etc. One group did a kind of exercise routine to Felix
Navidad. Selita and Terrance shared what Christmas is about. Then we
had a play. During the week Mama Anne, Mama Rose M, and Auntie
Zandile had been sewing like crazy to make the costumes which we will
save for other years. We set up 2 sewing machines in one of the
classrooms and they worked so hard.

We had really practiced and it was well timed and even with costume
changes the program moved along nicely. After the play the children
sang "The Little Drummer Boy" with Isaac playing the drum and coming
from the back.

We had several guests from the community including people from the
social welfare department, Patrick Schimwa from Liteta school, Aunt
Harriet from Nyrienda village, and some others.

Afterwards we had refreshments on the verandah. I had told the
children that they needed to be polite and let the guests get their
refreshments first. So they all sat so nicely and waited til the very
end. We all were very proud of them.