Celebrating Cultures

So excited about this fun event at Ella's school... where children learn about different countries, cultures, and traditions throughout the week and get to celebrate at the end with a country costume/heritage parade. Ella will be wearing his Romanian folk costume. I'm planning on having her help me make a little collage for her to take to school that talks about her Indian, Romanian, and American heritage. We'll be reading Indian/Hindi and Romanian folk tales this week at home and enjoying traditional dishes from our home countries (some of her Romanian favorites include sour meatball soup/ciorba de perisoare and crepes/clatite; from the Indian cuisine- she loves pohe/rice flakes cooked with yummy potatoes, tomatoes, and peas, and shira/semolina cooked in soy, with banana, and raisins.)

I think it's really neat that we can celebrate diversity of culture and tradition, and give children and parents of sense of pride in their heritage and an opportunity to honor it, all at the same time while  recognizing that in spite of our diverse backgrounds and uniqueness, we really are not that different.

And I'm so grateful for the great treasure we hold within our little family, of wonderful traditions, folk tales, myths, aromas, fragrances, and flavours, colors, sounds, and rhytms, all intertwined in the very fabric of our daily lives. I hope we can always celebrate and honor this treasure more in our family.

Will be posting pictures of the parade later on. I'm excited, can you tell?

     

With her class-aren't they the sweetest???