International Day at Superkids

Today was Devin’s first day back at Superkids after our trip, and it was INTERNATIONAL DAY (We’d made sure to be back for this). Parents and children are encouraged to come in their national dress (what would national dress be for Americans?), and everyone was asked to bring some typical food from their home country. Since there are kids from 24 nations at Superkids, we were really looking forward to this.

We were a little uncertain as to what WE should bring though. Most of the best things we cook are, well, originally from other countries, not the US. And we really haven’t been at our finest in terms of cooking since we got here (out of our own kitchen, without all our tools, missing some ingredients). And then there’s the issue of cooking something kids will like. We thought about brownies, but ended up making peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.

The other parents were more clued in to the fact that the buffet was for parents primarily. The kids would have lunch right afterwards, so whether they ate or not was not important. There was sushi, samosa, butter chicken, pogatch (a hungarian biscuit with cheese baked on top), chocolate chip cookies and about a hundred other things, sweet and savory.

All the children had made flags from their home countries in class this week, and they paraded out into the garden waving them. Hungary and Germany seemed to be the largest national groups, with kids from Malaysia, India, Israel, Palestine, Ireland, South Africa, Canada . . . . Devin’s class sang a song about knowing the names of all the continents, and then their favorite song about a froggie.