Hi dear friends!
How are you doing? How is everything going with you? This year is running like river, it is September and there are only 3 months left to start a new year. We hope this year is going great for all of you.
We are going to start school within 2 weeks. We all are very excited about school, meeting our teachers and playing with our friends. We all have all the necessary materials to start school and thank God for all of the things we have now.
In this letter we want to share our shelter culture that we do every September before we start school. In this special month, our father Tesfa gather all of us at the shelter and prepare some programs. We all love this program and think about it throughout the year. The program started with an opening speech our father prepare. He thank God for this beautiful day and gathering us all together. He also remind us all the major things the happened in our shelter. Among the things we all remember are the time we spend our time with our grandmother and celebrate Canada Day, this year we all got to celebrate our birthday, almost all of us passed our class with a good rank, the time we celebrate Mango Day and many more blessings. And we all love his speech.
Then we play games like describing the thing that we see without actually saying the name and it is a very fun game. We divided in 2 group and we compete. Then after this game our father ask us to write what our plan is in the coming year of class, what is the most good or positive behavior that we now about our self and what is the thing we want to improve in the coming year. It was very interesting and it make us to observe how this year passed and how we plan to act in the coming year. This thing help us in the previous year the same way. After we write it, we stand individually and read what we write and every one will comment on it. We encourage each other and we share ideas how to solve the problem and we get a very constructive plan for the New Year.
If one child say that he want to be 1st in his/her class in the coming year, we all suggest the best studying plan, book recommendations and additional helpful ideas to make our brother/sister’s plan come true. We also share our experience and finally our father will summarize the discussion. This culture helps us in many aspects, for example if one forgets about the plan we make in this program, one of us will remind them and push to get to our goal.
Then at the end of this program we all eat some sweets, fruits and we dance together. Don’t you love our September culture? We hope you will suggest to us other helpful cultures so that we can make them ours. We really love writhing to you and sharing ideas. We will attach some pictures of the program.
Stay safe and have a great time with your loved once.
