March Meeting

                                 Happy Easter!   

            Feliz Pascoa! Frohe Ostern! ¡Felices Pascuas!

イースターおめでとう！Joyeuses Pâques!

Our March meeting was filled with fun. We had a very special visit from one of our member's family from Japan! Aki's sister and nephews talked about their life in Tokyo, specially how they spend their day at school. It was great to see pictures of the beautiful art of Japanese calligraphy using a brush and black ink. Also, very interesting to learn that many characters in the Japanese writing were adopted Chinese characters. So many amazing facts I didn't know about Japan! We will definitely have a full presentation about this fascinating country next month!

With Easter as our theme for this month I continued the meeting with a presentation about my adventures when backpacking through Austria. One of many things I remembered about Austria was the gorgeous decorated Easter Eggs beautifully displayed on the windows of the shops in the streets of Vienna and Salzburg. I thought it would be a good idea to replicate these eggs in our meeting and the children would have some fun decorating them. Check out the pictures below!

Other highlights of Austria were the famous composers of course, the Waltz, the Danube River and the beautiful country side surroundings of Salzburg which provided gorgeous scenery for the locations of "The Sound of Music" movie. 

No Easter party would be complete without an Egg Hunt, and although the weather wasn't great we still had loads of fun outside for our hunt. The kids were very good sharing all the eggs with everyone and in the end, as usual, we had our communal lunch, this time we laid blankets and had a picnic in the hall!

Enjoy the pictures:

Japanese presentation

                     Traditional Japanese toys
                                     Japanese Calligraphy

              
                             

Let's find the countries on the map

                                                                                                       

 

Daniel showing pictures of Austria

  

Dancing the Waltz listening to Mozart and Schubert

 
                                                                         

 

Kids decorating Easter Eggs

                                        

                          

 

                                  

                       

Time for Egg Hunt!!

 

 

 

Easter Picnic!!