Activities Abound for the Enrichment Year kids at ASYV

It's been a busy weekend.  The Ishema Grade (Enrichment Year) put on their own village time.  It was great, one of the best village times all year. The kids danced, sang, performed poems, a stand-up comedy routine and a long fashion show.  Eleanor Roosevelt was well represented with Ornella & Adelaide serving as emcees for the event, Happyness singing a solo, Happyness & Yvonne dancing with the drama group and Alice and Violette modeling in the fashion show.

It is pretty hard to photograph village time because the distance and the dark and the speed at which the kids are moving, so this is what you get.  Sorry.

Happyness singing a gospel song with the preparations for the art show in the background.

Here's the whole drama group dancing to a gospel song, Yvonne is in the front in the orange and Happyness is in the black and white.  Happyness choreographed the whole dance.

Yvonne and Happyness zoom.  I love the shadows in the background.

Also, we had 3 baptisms in the family.  Happyness, Agnes and Josiane were baptized on Sunday in a Protestant ceremony.  There was a celebration after back at the village at our house and the kids who were baptized were allowed to invite guests.  Happyness had an aunt and uncle came, and Josiane's mom came, but no one came for Agnes and she cried and cried the whole day.  

Happyness singing in the Eleanor Roosevelt family house after the baptism

Here's Josiane and her Mom, who travelled a long distance to be at the celebration, and Yvonne to the right.

Here's Josiane small trying to comfort Agnes on a hard day

Here's Grace, Happines and Yvonne clowning around after the guests left the party.

I was in and out of the celebration with some kind of stomach spasms.  Thanks WebMD symptom checker for giving me 18 options from shingles to colon cancer.  It said it was most likely the flu but I haven't been sick with vomiting or fever, just crazy stomach contractions.  My guess is something from the movie Alien. I'll keep you posted.