By Liz Jones
VE Volunteer from Atlanta, USA
Twice a year VE puts on a talent/art show for all of the institutions. Everyone submits a bunch of artwork and the kids have a chance to perform. They can dance, sing, or play an instrument. The artwork and the performances are all judged and some of the kids get prizes. It was such a fun night, and I’m so happy that I got to experience it!
All the performances were so great! It was really awesome to see all of the girls show everyone their artistic talents. All of the artwork was so creative, and I really enjoyed looking at it all. Some of my girls ended up dancing to a Miley Cyrus song that I taught them a few months ago, which made me so happy and was so exciting to see them perform!
To start off the show, a group of volunteers performed a dance. The kids loved it! Then, after all the girls did their performances, another group of volunteers danced to a Spanish song (I was in this group). Right before we started dancing, all my girls started to chant my name; it was sooo cute!
After snack time the judges gave out the prizes. My girls won a prize for the Miley Cyrus dance!!! I was so proud of them and they were very excited to win. Three of my girls won prizes for some of their artwork and another girl won a prize for a poem she wrote. It was so great to be able to experience Festival with my girls. I wish there could be more for me to attend; I really enjoyed seeing my girls be so proud of themselves.
I have never felt so proud of anyone like I did with my girls. It was a new feeling for me. I felt like a proud mama bear. It was interesting for me to see how I reacted to everything; it gave me a small glance into the future on the type of mom I’m going to be. I will definitely be the mom taking a TON of pictures of EVERYTHING and recording EVERY performance. And I’m pretty sure I will most definitely embarrass my kids…all the time.