Brunei Roses: International Day 2011

To complete International Week, the children at JIS took part in the International Parade this morning. This wasn't completely new to Oliver as he was there as a little Maori last year from Geckos toddler group. New Zealand was well covered so I prepared a Japanese yukata for Oliver to wear this year.

Oh boy it was a struggle! Hard to convince him to stay still while he is getting dressed and stop him pulling the costume apart.
After so much screaming and bribing, I managed to dress him and got to school on time!

Here is Oliver walking/running to his classroom in his yukata.

The school has changed the program a bit. This year all the students went to the brand new art center auditorium to watch the International Concert performed by 250 students (we will be going tomorrow night). I talked to Oliver's classroom teacher afterwards and was told that the nursery kids were very confused but very excited to be there and watched the show very nicely.

Us parents were invited to watch the International Parade. It was much more comfortable than the previous year, in the air conditioned gym with seats instead of outside in the Brunei heat. There were displays of the countries the students have been studying during the week.

Here is New Zealand.

Oliver's year group didn't have any display but studied the same country - Malaysia and it looked very nice.

All the students were in the gym and ready for the parade! So many countries to represent - so colourful!
I assumed it would start from the very little ones to the oldest. But no, Oliver didn't come on the stage until 3 quarters of the way through.

Finally it was time for Unicorn students.

Oliver's little friend dressed as a Smurf - from Belgium

I was worried Oliver would cry his eyes out. There was so much noise and so many people around them but he managed to get to the other side all by himself!