Saturday, December 06, 2008

Christmas show

Today the Daughter had her Christmas "show" in school. The local PTA (now this is worth a whole other post...) had arranged for a "Jolly Holly Breakfast" and the whole school was performing (thus unfortunately making us miss the SWEA's Swedish Christmas market in San Francisco).

The kids must have felt like stars with all the paparazzis, oups, I mean parents with cameras and camcorders (wiping their eyes out of pride of their kids).

The Kindergartner sang two songs, very American Christmas songs, and they were really cute singing. We joined the other paparazzis and took tons of pictures and of course filmed the whole event. The Daughter mostly seemed paralyzed as many of her fellow friends - but luckily they had the music and some recorded song in the background...

Santa was there too and you could have your kid's picture taken for $1. The Daughter refused to go near him. She claimed it was not the real Santa since he spoke English...

9 comments:

Anonymous said...

Britgirl (Why doesn't it recognise me?!!!)

Oh that's so cute! Bless her!

I must admit, I always found that the things that the school put on like plays and shows etc, always really made me feel like an alien as I sat there feeling just a little sad of what they might be missing in England. (Each country has it's own little traditions and ways) I always kinda wished they could do both but as they say...you can't have it all!

JaCal said...

Britgirl - oh, I know exactly what you mean... it was very American- and cute in all sorts of way - but different types of songs we would have at Christmas in Sweden. I'm glad they get the chance to do the Lucia procession at IKEA on Friday (at 6 pm if you want to see!).

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BritGirl said...

We do have to go to Ikea to get a few things but unfortunetly on Friday our son is going to a party at 6 and so we can't go then. Shame because I would love to see it.
Have a great time there though and be sure to take photo's!;)

Annika said...

Vad kul att ni får ta del av rena julföreställningar, nästan julfester på skolan. DET har aldrig hänt här där det är så PC att man knappt får nämna julen på skolan. Fast, nu när K går i Middle School fick dom faktiskt sjunga julsånger...WOW!!! Jag blev så glad att jag faktiskt ville flyga i taket! Julsånger, ffg på 8 år på skolan! Aldrig att jag sett en julgran eller en tomte på skolorna här.
Härligt att man kör så hos er.
På helgkonserten på Karolinas skola blandade man julmusik med hannukkah och lite kwanzaa. Perfekt med blandning, tycker jag!!

JaCal said...

Britgirl - oh, too bad! I'm sure you would have loved it!! See - if you had that license - you could have come over on your own!

Annika - jösses... trist... här verkar de ha en mer pragmatisk syn. Mer "en del har speciella kläder på, andra tänder speciella ljusstakar, andra äter speciell mat - men alla är de tillsammans med sina familjer under the holidays". Trist med PC annars - bättre att man firar alla! Fast jag kan ju sakna lite de "vanliga svenska" sångerna... inser att de ju inte kommer bli alls lika stor naturlig del av barnens liv som för mig. Men på fredag ska de lussa på IKEA - DÅ blir det svenska julsånger! Hurra! ;-)

BritGirl said...

You sound like my mother!!! Haha!;P

Anna, Fair and True said...

Vad gulligt att hon inte trodde att det var riktiga tomten för att han inte pratade svenska! :)

JaCal said...

BritGirl - haha - well -see - we both seem very wise!

Anna - jo, hon är väldigt bestämt att han ska prata svenska... vilket betyder att vi aldrig kan ha någon "inhyrd" - om vi inte lyckas hitta någon annan svensktalande man i närheten... ;-)