Global Family Camp (part 4): Great Moments for the kids & families

Camp Fire Night and Talent Show. The first night of the first day at the camp was filled with laughter and joys when all of the participants, including the children, joined hand in hand to show off their talent.

The kids were on stage to dance to the beat....^^. It was hilarious.

All the kids from different countries mingled together and shared the togetherness.

Then, after some shows, all of the groups gathered and made a pack, made some wishes and ....most impressive of all, lighted up a heart-shape balloon.  

First, we had to light a candle slit inside the balloon so as to make it float and then fly away with all the wishes we made...

Then, off it went up up up away into the pitch black of the night. The eerie sound of the forest surrounding us  and the silence within the compound (considering the fact that we were hundreds in number)....showed how mesmerized most of us were by this simple act of being together.

------at around 10 pm, we went to our camp to sleep---

Morning set in.

It was the time to have breakfast. I got a glimpse of Freya tagging along her mother and sister towards the cafetaria where we had our meals.

Inside the cafetaria the National Youth Center...What a great time we did have there.

After having a meal, I took my wife back to our room to prepare for our 2nd day of activities. On our way there, we got a chance to take some shots of what it looked like at the camp site. 

Talent Show at NIIED Orientation

The talent show did steal the crowd's attention. Lots of performers from different countries representing their current universities managed to make the best program ever. Two Indonesian students, Ivan from Pusan National University and Gemilang from Yonsei University, contributed their talents to the crowd. Ivan played an acoustic version of 2002's World Cup's theme song. His friend from India accompanied him in singing.  On the other hand, Gemilang did an excellent job of dancing a Western Javanese Jaipong dance mixed with that of Balinese dance. It was so mesmerizing. I myself could not believe what I saw since she danced beautifully. I bet lots of people were bedazzled.

Two singers from Yonsei performed their best in singing a Korean song titled 난 사랑할 수 밖에 몰라 'I know nothing but to love you', then four Myanmar girls dressed in their traditional costumes sang a Korean song. I also witnessed a at-first-it-was-kind-of-weird show from our friend Uganda, but it turned out to be one of the best show ever! I think most of us would never expect to have a kind of lecture or presentation about Uganda on power point presentation....especially during the Talent Show like that. But, it turned out to be quite an interesting twist of the night. We became aware of how little we know about other country's real condition. Bravo and Salute to the Ugandan team; especially after they closed their presentation with an energetic, electrifying rendition of kinda African-American music that did steal the show. The guys were so hilarious in showing off their booty dance. It looked like a poco-poco (Indonesian folk dance) at first, but it was somewhat different.
Indeed, that was a night to remember.