Promocion 2008

When 5-year-olds finish pre-school and are ready to start their 1st year of primary school, they have a party called ´la promocion´. It´s a big thing here to finish pre-school, and there was a party for the 5-year-olds at the school this Thursday. It took most of the morning to prepare and then carried on until early afternoon.

There was a presentation of framed school photos and I took photos of each child receiving their photo and will print out for them. I even got to present one, but I didn´t feel dressed for the part and the photo didn´t come out too well!

And there was food - lots of jelly and mazzamorra morada (more jelly, made with black corn), crisps, sweets, and a huge cake donated by someone. And some clowns came to entertain too! Lots of the children came dressed up in their best clothes - quite impressive and somewhat bemusing, considering they can´t afford pencils for school ...

I was asked if I could donate a ´pinata´ and I used our contributions for this - it´s a parcel of sweets and presents that gets hung up and is then bashed to pieces to get all the goodies out - great fun was had by all!