Ashley has spent several hours EVERY weekend since early in the Fall working on a HUGE project for her Gifted & Talented English/History Class: CULTURE DAY!!! Her group's region was The Mediterranean, which included France, Italy, Spain and Greece. They did an AMAZING job on their project presentation - which lasted over three hours in two days! They had stations of each country, and even served a three course sit down meal for the entire class using food from Italy (donated by a generous Italian restaurant in our town), sparkling grape juice and homemade Tiramisu and Creme Brulee!
Ashley and her best friend, Liza - representing "France"
Ashley and Liza serving their Italian "Dinner"!
The tables in the Lecture Hall were transformed into gondolas, with grapevines along all the walls, "water" from Venice on the side aisles, and stars on the lights. The Italian Dinner was beautiful!!!
Ashley and Bailey
Looking through the courtyard into the area of the Vatican
What was really amazing about this project was that these kids spent less than $25 each on supplies. Everything else was either donated, borrowed, etc. They worked SOOOO hard and were very respectful of the financial burden for their families. (Some groups spent as much as $250-$300 per child on the project, and Ashley's group was unanimously voted the best of the year - so far with one group left to go.) The kids painted foot after foot of "cobblestone" for the courtyard, enough grapevines to line all the walls of the lecture hall, and so many other resourceful & artistic touches. The room above is actually their English classroom - hard to tell, isn't it?
The Youth Minister from our church was able to attend the Culture Day - as well as most of the parents. It's so good to see these kids get so much support for their good work! I'm a proud Mama, but I have to admit: I'M SOOOOO GLAD IT'S OVER!!!!!!!
. . . just another day in the life . . .
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