Friday, May 14, 2010

May Day 2010


One of the things I've come to love most about living in Hawaii is the May Day celebration each Spring. In Hawaii May Day is a celebration and display of native Hawaiian culture. The school kids work and rehearse for months to prepare and perform dances, chants, songs, and Hula for this event. Parents, Aunties, Uncles, grandparents come early in the morning to save a seat and watch this event.

This is Veda's second May Day performance. All the first graders made their own Ipu - a gourd Hula drum. They did a dance and chant while drumming on their Ipu.

My kid was the cutest one. :)



Veda's fabulous 1st grade teacher, Mrs. Kakinami




Next year we'll have both of our girls performing in May Day! I can't wait.

3 comments:

Susan said...

I love that she is doing this... can you load a video of her? I would love to see exactly what she is doing. She looks adorable too!

Tanya said...

She is adorable! There is one picture when she looks so much like you to me. And then the second one from the bottom she looks gorgeous - like a little glimpse of the teenager to come. Look out!! I don't envy you!

Suzanne said...

I don't know when you changed your header but it's beautiful!