July 16

July 16

Today the day! Part 2 of the school festival. Today's when all the parents and family friends come to see the school for performances, acts, see the class rooms the students have decorated and of course to eat LOT AND LOTS of food! Now this was my kind of typical day here.

The effort the classes put into decorating and advertising their class themes is remarkable. It's like homecoming for us but EVERY SINGLE student in the school puts countless effort towards it's, everyone is excited and happy and active the whole week! It's inspiring how much they are dedicated to their school and it's festival. I wish more then anything HIES did something like their festival and EVERYONE was into it as well and was just as excited and energic as the students here are.

Before we knew it, it was time to start cleaning up and head on over to the gym for the closing ceremony of the festival. Here we made our goodbye speech to the school, it was one moment in my life I will never forget. We were introduced again and this time the crowd was 100xs louder then before. Everyone stood up and ran towards the stage, cheering and shouting all with big smilies on their beautiful faces, all with their head bands, toy ears and horns lit up the dark endless crowd of students and friends. As I lead the group on stage, I was the first to speak. Before I even was able to read my second line the crowd went wild! The screams and cheers grew louder and it was so challenging to calm down the crowd so my speech could continue xD

We all felt like the most important people in the world to this school. That moment when we all stood on stage as we all said our goodbyes, cheers were shouted, tears were shed, smilies were exposed, it was one of those moment in ur life u never wanted to end. It was one of those moments that couldn't be caught or reviewed on camera, cause those few minutes were irreplaceable. It was one of thoes moments when u truley realize what this trip is about.