According to Sienna....

One of Sienna's Faith in God requirements is to "Visit an art museum or attend a concert, play, or other cultural event. Share your experience with your family or activity day group."

So here is Sienna, sharing her journal account of the cultural event at the High School we attended recently.


"On June 28 we went to a performance thing.  A school was doing it. We were invited by Cecilia because her daughter was dancing!  We didn't stay for the whole thing because it was late.  Here are the performances they did:

The first one was by girls about my age.  There were a bunch of them.  They sang some songs.  There are a lot of differences of the performances here and in the United States.  Everyone had dinner while they watched the performers.  Also, instead of being quiet and listening, it was loud of people's voices and whatever the performer was doing.  The performers do many of what they're doing.  The girls singing sang many songs.  I waned the next performance to start.

The next one was Cecilia's daughter's performance.  Lujan, Lara, and their other friend danced it with three boys.  They were the ones who babysat us!  It wasn't tango although that is a popular dance.  They had long skirts that they waved and they snapped their fingers.  I think it was a song you could keep a beat to.  Then they danced again, basically the same dance except one person was changed to somebody else.  It was fun watching and it looked fun dancing.

Then there was some guitar players.  They sang songs in Spanish while they played.  When they played, we ate. The waiter gave us random cake slices.  Ashley didn't eat a lot of the cake.  She didn't because of the dulce de leche in them.  It makes it better.  Colby got a sausage in a roll.  He didn't like the sausage.  I got small pizza circles.  That's all the food we got because we already had dinner.

There were probably more than we watched.  Our last one we watched was another dance.  Two girls did it.  It was pretty and smooth, but it wasn't tango.  They had really long, pretty skirts.  It was pretty.

It was interesting watching a cultural performance.  I wish I could've watched more.  It felt like a talent show but Mommy said it wasn't.  It felt like the show was just background.

Everyone was talking.  A lot of people there knew English.  Between all was just playing, talking, and eating.  At a show in America everyone would be respectful and give attention, and be quiet and listen.  Here it is different."