Romanian National Day

by Kendall Peet, Head of School

I am actually writing this on Romanian National Day, just moments after enjoying a flash mob hora! An interesting mix of old traditions and new practices.

The staff knew, but it was a complete surprise for the kids as we started playing Hora Unirii through the outside speakers. We quickly donned coats and jackets over our elaborate national costues and dresses and streamed onto the playground to perform the hora with over 400 people in the November rain (unfortunately, we did not do the hora to Guns and Roses – that would have been a strange clash of cultures).

We even had sarmale and cozonac for the school lunch menu– you can’t get more Romanian than that!