International Festival!

For the most part I found the excessive lack of English speaking parents and children at Max's school to be more on the annoying and inconvenient side of things. I'm not racist. It was just difficult to form relationships with other parents and their kids because most nationalities tended to group themselves together tightly. I don't blame them. I would do the same in a foreign country, too.

Doyle holds an annual festival to celebrate its diversity and this was actually kind of cool! They had different classes perform international dances, booths set up to represent every country that had a student and Food Trucks (of course this was my favorite part).

Max's class and Mrs. Radmerski's class had an American 60's dance. They danced to a few Beach Boys songs and sang, too. It was really cute. I'm not sure how cultured it is compared to the Japanese Lotus Flower Dance or the class that did an exciting number to Jai Ho, but it was cute nonetheless.

 

 

Max takes his performances very seriously. It was hard to catch a smile. Every once in a while he'd look at me and crack a TINY little smile. But mostly he just took every move very seriously. Cute kid!

 

And my favorite series of photos of him I think ever. SO SO cute how he's dancing with his eyes closed, haha!

 

 

Also, this was the night he started to run a fever that eventually led to him having pneumonia. He came home from school feeling awful and fell asleep. His fever went down and he had been working SO hard for weeks and weeks I didn't want him to miss the show. So we went and when he was done and we got home he totally crashed and was sick for days and days, poor thing.