One of the things that always amazes me about US is how interested and amazed everyone around us is about where we came from and our culture. Our kid's school teachers, coaches, etc, emphasise always how cool it is that they are part of two cultures and speak two languages.
As a result, our kids seem to think it is very "cool" to have parents who grew up in a different culture and be able to spend summers with family and relatives at another part of the world...
I was glad that they were very enthusiastic about the international day/night idea. After all, sometimes kids just want to "fit in", they don't like the idea of being "different" from everyone else. So I was pleasantly surprised that they wanted to go for it all the way. They went to school with traditional outfits and helped me to prepare for the night part...
After school, we had tables prepared with things that represented Turkey and sample food. Our table was at the cafeteria and we served two kinds of Turkish food: "Simit" which something in between a sesame bagel and a pretzel and "Baklava"...
Kids had "passports" and had to go to each table and get stickers or stamps from them. Each table had some sort of activity to entertain the kids. We had lots of evil eye beads and kids got to make some good luck charm bracelets...
We all had great time... The international night will definitely become a tradition at our school...
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