Sunday, March 27, 2016

Eikaiwa Easter Parties!

Happy Easter!!
We are in charge of holiday parties at English class.  We teach two sessions of English class- one in Tsuruoka on Wednesday evening and one in Sakata on Thursday evening.  We celebrate major American holidays with first, teaching them about the holiday in English, then dancing, games, and refreshments.  We included both #hallelujah videos in our party this year.  Generally, we don't teach the gospel at the English classes, but how do you teach Easter and not teach the gospel. 

The car is loaded and ready to go party.

And the refreshments all set up.




The Chicken Dance.  "Da Da Da Da Da Da Da . . . "


Sakata Party
The elders were on splits with the zone leaders, so we had Elder Erickson with us.  He is an impressive young man. 

Da da da da da da.   Da da da.  Da da da da da da.

Hop, hop, hop.  The Bunny Hop


Do you love your neighbor?


I told about Handel's oratorio "The Messiah" and then we showed them this video:

https://www.mormon.org/easter/virtual-hallelujah-choir 

And then we showed this one:

https://www.mormon.org/easter/hallelujah

I tried to load them on here, but it wouldn't work.  But go watch them.  They are wonderful!

Hallelujah!  and Happy Easter!

3 comments:

Pam said...

All of your Easter goodies look so yummy and what a great idea so show them those Hallelujah videos. You and Ken are being such fabulous USA ambassadors to represent our holidays and celebrations. I'll bet they are all loving it!

Joan Morris said...

Love the picture of the scotcharoos! It's tradition. Looks like the Easter party was a great success.

sara cardon said...

Are those Japanese scotcharoos?!? Amazing!!! 10 points for letting that tradition live on!