Yesterday (Friday October, 26) was a special day for The School of St. Jude where we live and Gabby works. It was the 10th Anniversary Celebration. Back in 2002 Gemma (the founder) and two other Aussie women and friends that agreed to help her spawn her vision, opened the school. They started with only three students. Today, through the hard work of Gemma and an ever-growing list of international volunteers and local staff and parents, the school has grown to an amazing size. There are over 1500 students and the school employs over 300 local Tanzanians in all types of roles.
Yesterday all of us here at the 'Smith' Secondary Campus made our way to the Primary/main campus for the huge celebration with about 2000 people all together. Though at times it felt like a drawn out wedding program, all in all it was a great day of watching and enjoying the celebration through the lens of Tanzanian culture with the children/teens taking center stage. Being a catholic based (but not exclusive) school, they began with a mass, African style.
Along with many of the staff departments from both campuses, Gabby joined in with the costume competition. Through a last minute idea and effort from Gabby and with the help of the school seamstress, the science department entered and grabbed 3rd prize! take a look.
There were special performances by all the classes from all the grades. They sang and danced some very cool call and response style songs. I couldn't get the video to load again, so no visuals of that.
Well, that is all for this blog...I better get started on the next one...
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