Fete de la Jeunesse

It's feterific here! All the lower schools celebrate the end of term with 'spectacles' and fetes. The Saint Blaise fete is always an entertaining evening, and this year was no exception. The theme was "Music of the World" and Allie's class were Canada. Allie got to be one of the 'grizzlies'! He started off down at the church. After their performance there, they had to walk up to 'Pre Brenier' (the park at the top) to perform there, then down to the primary school for a final performance. All the classes rotated around these 3 locations, so that everyone could get a look. The culmination was at the secondary school.

I took Allie down to the church to get ready.


Toby had the best view.


Are grizzlies meant to be cute?


One of the other classes were 'native Americans'. They had just come up form the primary school to perfom at the church.


The 'Indiens' leave the church and head up the hill, with Tobe and Walter to wave them on.


This is our French teacher's daughter. She's a year older than Allie, and sometimes comes over to play. Her class was "Trinidad".


This is the view of the secondary school, where the festivities continued after the performances. It was incredibly busy, so we went home after some chatting, and collapsed in a tired heap. Apparently, there was a 'disco' for the children that went on into the night! We were all too exhausted. On a side note, this is another example of us being out of step with the Swiss. We've discovered that we'll go somewhere and everyone else will be somewhere else. Back in the states, we saw this as a good thing, but here it means we're probably missing the best thing going on. The bloke on the right of the pic. is our French teacher's husband.


The grizzly waves after his last performance.


This is most of the performance down at the primary school. Keep an eye out for Allie!