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Monday, March 16, 2009

Thai Festival

Sophie's school has had a visiting teacher from Thailand this whole year. They have been learning about Thai art, food, literature etc...

This last week they had a group of Thai teachers come and teach them a dance to perform for the community. They also presented some dances for us as professionals.

I am so grateful for all the school does to bring cultural diversity to our little rural Vermont town in a way that we would never be able to do ourselves.




This lady learned how to play this very difficult instrument 7 months before she came to the United States in order to earn money to come here. Her classmates were 6 years old!

Sophie in her Thai dance costume.

Doing the dance. Her partner Stephen has had a crush on Sophie since kindergarten. I caught him at a bad moment...he really is a cute kid.

1 comment:

Unknown said...

What a wonderful thing! I wish there was a video of Sophie dancing. The sword thing was slightly awkward, but the woman dancing was so beautiful!!