Flamingo Lake

We headed out to Flamingo lake last weekend with some friends.  Unfortunately the flamingos were out of town but we still had a fun little excursion.  Check out Kati's blog for pictures!

Teacher Appreciation

On May 17th, the day we celebrated flag day, we also celebrated our teachers for Teacher Appreciation Day.  In my, humble, opinion Adoration Christian School is a great school.  You don't have a great school unless you have a strong, committed, energetic, educated, capable team behind the school.  We, at Adoration, have all of those things.  We have a great teaching staff who wants to make an impact on their students and on their community.

Thank you Rachelle, Node, Ketia, Annelle, Wislande, Carline, Roodvens, Reminais, Abner, Evenz, Magdalyne, Ketie, and Alix for all of your work that you do for Adoration Christian School.  We know that your job is challenging and frustrating but we thank you for all the time, energy, prayers, sweat and tears that you invest into your students each and every day again.  Thank you for being a blessing to Adoration. 

Alix, school director, giving a short appreciation speech

Some of the ladies enjoying their lunch and cake
Node, Magdalyne, Carline, Rachelle



Flag Day Parade

As promised here are the videos of Adoration's Flag Day parade.  Enjoy!

NB  Thank you Kait for being our videographer/photographer for the parade!

Saturday Swinging

Maia Swinging high in the sky!

Photo courtesy of Maia... the fact that she had my camera makes me just a little nervous
but check out how centred and clear this picture is! 
I think she's got talent... just don't want her practicing that talent with my camera....

Fête du Drapeau

Tomorrow, May 18th, is Flag Day.  Flag Day is a national holiday here in Haiti.  Below are some quick facts on the Haitian flag.

• First Haitian Flag was adopted on May 18, 1803
• Revolutionary leader Jean-Jacques Dessalines created the flag by ripping out the white in a French flag

• The blue represents vigilance, loyalty, perseverance and justice, and the union of black Haitians and mulatto Haitians
• The red symbolizes hardiness, bravery, strength and valour
• The coat of arms in the middle of the flag consists of a trophy of weapons ready to defend freedom
• The coat of arms also has a royal palm that symbolizes independence.  The palm is topped by the Cap of Liberty
• On the white scroll on the flag is the nations motto; it reads L'Union Fait La Force ("Unity Makes Strength")

At school today we celebrated flag day with the students.  The older classes started of the morning with some trivia about the flag.  Grade 3 & 4 were very evenly matched!  There was lot's of cheering and yelling going on down there as the classes displayed their intelligence.

And around 10 we started our parade!  This is the first year we have done a parade in the community and judging by how much the students enjoyed it, I don't think it will be our last.  Roodvens (Grade 3 teacher) has been preparing the students for the parade for a couple of weeks.  Throughout the last couple of weeks during recreation as well as Phys ed you could hear and see the students learning the chants,  songs and routines that go along with the flag day celebrations.  This morning the school headed around the block and down the hill waving their haitian flags and proudly singing about their flag, their independence, their country.  Hopefully we'll have a short video for you next week showing you their fine performance but for now pictures will have to do.

Practicing before we left the school yard

Marching out into the community

Left, Right, Left, Right, Left, Right

Roodvens, proudly leading the parade

L'Union Fait La Force!

Birthday Puddle Party

To celebrate Maia's third birthday we had a birthday BBQ bash on Saturday with some dear friends.  We were hoping for a nice evening in which we could hang out outside playing bocce ball and ladder golf and the kids could run around the yard... while instead the rain came pouring down and the kids ended up entertaining themselves by jumping in the puddles.  It was great fun!

Enjoying the outdoors before the rain...

  

"Happy Birthday dear Maia.."

Yummy!



Had some serious puddle jumping going on!

Maia handpainted the goodie bags for all of her friends

Three

Three, 3, trois, twa, twee, une,deux, trois, triez,

Oh the many wonderful things about the Number 3 : For instance:

3

3 is a prime number.

A triad, triplet, trio, tern or hat-trick...

Tri- means three. So triangles have three sides, tripods have three legs and the dinosaur triceratops had three horns. The French flag is a tricolore because it has three colours. Trigonometry is a branch of mathematics based on measuring triangles.

Three-dimensional means that something has length, width and depth.

There are (usually) three school terms in a year.

Oaths are traditionally repeated three times.

A three-legged race is run by two people each with a leg tied to their partner's.

The letters A F H K N Y Z are all made up of three lines.

There are three barleycorns in an inch, three feet in a yard, and three miles in a league. Barleycorns and leagues are some old imperial units of length which are no longer used today.

Once upon a time there were three little pigs ... three billy goats gruff ...

So, you can see what all the excitement is about the number 3!!!!!!!!!!!!
 
And 3 is a big number in our house today as it is Maia's 3rd Birthday!!!

Happy Birthday Sweet girl, so thankful for the three years that we have had with you and excited to see what the Lord has in store for you in the coming year.

Love you!