The "Annual"

At the end of each year most schools hold some form of concert to conclude and celebrate the year's achievements. Because Indian schools spend January and February preparing for exams at the end of their academic year, they usually have the Annual, as they call it, in December. St Francis School was preparing for theirs last year when it was postponed due to heavy rain, a rarity before Christmas. So it was rescheduled for last night and I was luck enough to be invited as a special guest from Australia.
The school's Mantra is Dream, Believe, Achieve and the whole night's performance centred around this theme. And the kids really believed it!
St Francis school goes from Kindergarten to 10th Standard. There is then a state set exam. Students then leave and go to PUC (Pre-University College) to do their 11th and 12th years. So this was the last blast for the Year 10 and they really let everyone have it.

Stories included the homeless Korean boy Sung-bong Choi who won Korea's got Talent, Helen Keller who was blind and deaf and Mother Theresa and her work among the homeless and abandoned. While I would love to have shared this event with many of my family and friends, suffice it to be represented here.