Christmas Productions

The Silly Season is almost over here. It started back in September, which marks the beginning of the “-ber” months. The “-ber” months are the Christmas months here. So even before Halloween, some shops had started decorating with red and green. The twelve days of Christmas are taken quite literally here, too. Everywhere I go, I’m being wished a Merry Christmas. And our local village square is holding sunrise Masses each morning from the 16th till the 25th. So much for our School Holiday sleep-in. Bells are ringing to wake us up at 5:30 each morning!
Anyway, both girls’ schools naturally joined in with the festivities. Along with Christmas parties and decoration-making, Emily and Zoe have been involved in Christmas shows. Emily’s came first, and she wore (much to her delight) a golden Angel costume. Others were shepherds, sheep, wise men, or Mary & Joseph.
There were 8 different songs in the production, and Emily had been singing all 8 of them by heart around the house for about 4 weeks. Such was her ‘practice’ at home, that Zoe was able to sing along to many of the songs when she went to watch! Emily was one of the narrators of the play, and got to stand in front of the microphone to tell her part of the story. She enjoyed performing so much that the teachers let her stay in front of the microphone for the whole of the song prior to her narration part. To my surprise, our once shy girl (see this entry for proof) stood tall and sang with pride.

Zoe also enjoyed her production.

Although admittedly, hers, being a performance for 2-3 year olds, was much more chaotic. She was obviously told to go up on stage and find her name tag on the floor. So this she did, and promptly pulled it off the floor, and put it down where she decided she’d like to sit! It moved around every time she got on stage! Her class was asked to wear a costume of their favourite fruit or vegetable, so this, for Zoe, meant being a Banana. I enjoyed designing and making her costume, and she enjoyed wearing it.

(And by the way, in relation to my last blog, her ‘crocs’ came from a local market. I had been looking for bright yellow shoes, and found some imitation Crocs at a department store for about 1,400 pesos (about NZ$45). I kept searching, and found some in a market later, and paid just 100pesos. (NZ$3).