Today is Mei-Li's birthday-February 12th. She got up at
6:00 or something in the morning, much earlier than usual. I guess she
must be too excited about the biggest birthday party she's ever had. At about
12:30pm, Todd drove Mei-Li, Yun, Mariana and I to their church in Lynnfield.
More than 20 kids came there and celebrated together with us.
The party
actually started at 2:30pm, we got there one hour earlier because we needed to
do some preparation. We first blew the red and white balloons, then tied one
red with one white, push pined to the wall together with some "read
hearts" of two different sizes. Todd tied some very beautiful streamers at
the front part of the room.
"Are
you going to stay or leave?" We asked every child's parents, then decided
which color we should use for their name tags. The red ones represent the kids
without parents being with them during the whole birthday celebration, and we
need to keep an eye on them to make sure they are OK.
Pinata in
Chinese, Which is the most popular activity in Mexico people would
like to do at their birthday parties. You can make pinata into any shapes they
like, such as donkey, fish, bird, and put various candies inside, waiting to be
beat. Today, we had the hedgehog-shaped one, Simeen and Mei-Li made it out of
six layers of newspapers, stuck by paste. Todd strung up the piñata and
all the kids were lined up, taking turns to beat it with the stick. Of course,
they should be blindfolded before bashing. Every one has a three time
opportunity. I was so worried about the poor hedgehog at the very beginning
because it seemed very fragile. What if the first few kids can break it down,
then the rest wouldn't get a chance to enjoy the beating? The truth is everyone
got their chance before the hedgehog turned into small pieces. Finally, all the
kids centered around the broken hedgehog to grab the candies.
What
surprised me is when all the candies
went into kids' bags, Semen asked these who
had the fewest to stand out in front of others. Then she let them lift up their
candy bags, and said to every other kids, "look at these poor bags, only
one or two candy, would those who got more like to give some to them and share?"
All the kids bent their heads to check their candy bags, some came up to the
front and volunteered to help. What an instructional lesson-learn while play.
So cool!
When the
party came to an end, it was almost 4:00pm. Todd took us home. It's on our way
back when we got to know the word-Pinata. Although I first heard this activity
in Anne's English conversation class in Lynn, I was never able
to get to know this so deeply, by watching it on person, besides, on a birthday
party.
Just want
to say Happy Birthday to Mei-Li Hannig again here! Wish she can go back to China
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