On Saturday morning, we headed to Falls Park for the Festival of Cultures. The boys enjoyed the opening parade, which pretty much consisted only of police escort motorcycles (which were a thrill in and of themselves for Michael) and random people carrying flags from around the world. There was one pick-up truck with a few young men in the back, drumming and singing Native American chants. For the boys, the highlight of the festival itself was the kids' tent, which included games from around the world including Mancala, Checkers, and Chess. Sioux Falls is certainly not the most multicultural place in the world, but they do have some diversity. One of our friends recently told us that 18% of the population here are people of color. Not sure if I believe that, but I have seen people of all sorts here: Latinos, Asians, Indians, Native Americans, and Africans. In fact, there is a significant refugee population here from the Sudan as well as from Ethiopia. I'm wondering if there might be some interesting opportunities to do play therapy with some of the refugee children...
On Saturday evening, we headed to Scheels, a huge sporting goods store, and bought the boys a new baseball bat and balls, and a soccer ball each. Time to start doing some drills ;)
On Saturday evening, we headed to Scheels, a huge sporting goods store, and bought the boys a new baseball bat and balls, and a soccer ball each. Time to start doing some drills ;)
Maria, that would be wonderful if you could work with refugee children ... I'm not sure why Sudanese wind up in S. Dakota, but it has to be a major adjustment for them!
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