Torchlight Parade

 The school recently celebrated 39 years of its existence by having a torchlight parade, as they do every year.  Each of the students, from first grade up to ninth, made a torch to carry in the parade.  They each took a thick stalk of bamboo, split the end, and then inserted an old bottle.  On the day of the parade, they filled the bottle with kerosene and stuffed a rag in as a wick.  Heather and I were a little skeptical of letting first graders run around with bottles of burning kerosene, but everything went very smoothly.  There was a lot of relighting the torches from each other as the wind blew them out, but everyone seemed to know the correct way to carry their torch safely.  

Yarisel (1st grade)  leads the parade

Give me a light!

 There was a group of drummers accompanying the parade.  They were very energetic!

We finally moved into our new house on Friday.  We have been busy settling in and getting things for the house, and haven't taken any pictures yet.  We'll post more next week.