Mother Tongue Week Reflection :D

This week at Sinarmas World Academy we were celebrating Mother Tongue week.
Each day, students shared the cultures of their countries as we visited the five continents around the globe. Performances were held in the Bamboo Court during lunch times and everyone was invited to come and watch. It was an important event on our school calendar and had a lot of fun, celebrating through music and dance.

There were many different performances during Mother Tongue week, the Chinese fan dance, the Korean fan dance and different kinds of traditional dance and performance from Indonesia, Australia, New Zealand and Africa. What I was most impressed with was the teacher’s playing the Angkor, it was a very good performance with good harmony and even though they made some mistakes, we watched it and enjoyed it a lot.

There were many display boards from the different countries in the Lotus lounge area. When we looked around, I felt like I was travelling through six countries at once with very good explanations on the posters. I knew many people didn’t like to look around or watch this exhibition because they were just too lazy and didn’t want to waste time. In my opinion, our school is becoming more international and we should look around at the many different countries’ and their cultures so that we have more information to understand the backgrounds of our teachers and friends. There are many people who don’t know how many people live in Australia and what their traditional foods are. Do you know about it? I guess, you don’t have any idea of the answers to those questions. That’s the reasons why we are celebrating Mother Tongue week and sharing information about countries in each of the five continents.

The celebration of Mother tongue day needs all people to participate and to share their own countries culture within the school community. However, I didn’t see everyone participation as much as we needed. I hope they will participate for their own countries at the food fair on Friday and understand their friends’ culture. This event will be a wonderful memory when we grow up and I hope that many more students will join the celebrations in 2012.