Agape Got Talent!

In Agape, we do a Birthday party in the end of the month for everybody who born in that month. This time, there were 5 kids and Agape manager's BD! We asked the kids what they want for their BD and bought a present for each child. Of course, we brought a cake as well! On the top of that, we wanted to make a party more excited so we have planned a talent show too. The other volunteers did it last month and kids loved it, they said. We asked the one of the older girl to make a poster, cut a paper in a star shape to get children to paint/draw for a competition, and told all the kids the day of the talent show! I have made a paper decoration on the wall with kids using some craft stuffs too.


On the day, we started with a BD party. We sang a BD song in English, Zulu and Dutch (I dont know why they knew it in Dutch, maybe its similar to African so thats why they can understand?). BD boys and girls sat in the front of the every body and opened the present one by one. The boy who requested a shoes got so excited when he saw his new shoes! (His old shoes got a hole but he was still wearing it.) The others got skinny jeans (for two girls), wrist watch and CD. We gave the manager a pamper set & she loved it too. I dont think the kids have much chance to get a brand new cloths or stuffs they like. I have noticed that they share cloths and shoes, rooms are quite empty for a teenage girl's room, no posters nor make-up stuffs, no bags nor accessories on the floor... I strongly think they deserve more.


Anyway... after the BD surprise, we moved on to the talent show! Many kids put their names down but it was same kids doing a different stuffs! The talented ones read poem, sang a song, dance, and even acted!! I was very impressed as they have prepared a lot! The dance has got complicated routines, lots of teenagers read a beautiful poem (one was saying that “Its hard to say goodbye” as it was the very last day for the volunteers ), they sang well and acted well! One of the auntie sang a beautiful song too! & last show was Zulu dancing by 6 teenage girls which I really felt happy about. Lots of kids likes hip hop music and dancing but I think its nice for them to keep the tradition too. (I used to dance a Japanese dance in the summer when I was a child as it was a tradition. Even its not cool nor pretty at all!!!) We prepared a prize for different age group and one for a drawing competition. Lots of girls group won this time (we were not the judge, we asked security guys to do that!) and they were all so excited when they got a prize which made us already happy. I havent seen kids jumping around and screaming so hard when they got a present. Im spoiling my nieces too much, maybe!