Amazing "Landfill Harmonic"!!

The town of Cateura, Paraguay is build on and around a landfill site.  Watch this video about how some of the children in this poor community are turning other people's trash into something very very beautiful!

INTERNATIONAL DAY OF PEACE

Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival

Every 15th day of the eighth month on the Chinese calendar, the full moon is celebrated across the Chinese world.   It is a time to come together, enjoy the brilliant full moon, be thankful for friends and family and partake in beautiful moon cakes.

For me the most endearing tradition of the mid-autumn festival is the lighting of lanterns.  Miss May and I love a lantern, and it turns out all the kiddies in our condo were keen to come out and show off their own!

I have not posted anything new for a while but I thought our friends overseas, some who left 'The Island' only recently, might enjoy hearing about our fabulous Lantern parade!!  Enjoy the pics!

Talking to your kids about race

Another great article from Inculture Mag I wanted to share....

How to Talk to Kids About Race: What’s Appropriate for Ages 3-8

By Madeleine Rogin

The topic of race is too often reduced to encouraging our children to ignore the racial differences around them, with the idea that this will result in creating a “colorblind” child who is more inclusive in her ability to see beyond color. There’s nothing wrong with wanting our children to look beneath the surface.... READ MORE

Easter Hunt - hot + humid!!!

We were a little better prepared for the easter hunt this year.  With the benefit of hindsight we understood that a hastily hidden and hastily found egg is much less likely to be melted and/or covered in ants!

 

Check out our easter tree... a new tradition in our family!

With help from her special little friend Miss May decorated her own eggs too!  Yes I blew the eggs... yes I was dizzy!

Amazingly Miss May managed to paint four eggs all by her self without any breakages.

Holi Festival: March 2013

Holi is celebrated all over India with colour, music, dance and bonfires. It marks the beginning of summer. It also celebrates the end of cold and hardship, and the successful harvest of the winter crop.

Hindu's the world over take great pleasure in spraying their friends, family and I'm sure the occasional stranger with brightly coloured powder and paint.  It makes for one of the most  spectacular and colourful festivals in the world.  What I love about Holi is that everyone seems to get involved... young and old, no family member is exempt from being "colour bombed"!

We opted for a 'finger paint fight' here in our own playground (with some actual finger painting thrown in).... check out our happy little Holi-kids!!