December the 31

Last day of 2009!!! Brazil was the delegation of the day!
In the morning we played mini banana, shark and we made our partiner's place mats.
In the afternoon we had hospital,
Since was the last day of the year, during the evening we had the oportunity to get to know how each of the countries celebrates new year!
In Norway we celebrated knocking in some doors, singing christmas songs and asking for candies. We also had to dress up a bit.
In Thailand the children wash the elder peoples hands,a symbol of respect and the older people bless them. We did it, the leaders and staffs were representing the olders.
In Brazil we celebrated singing a song, wearing white clothes to represent peace and jumping the 7 waves, making a wish to each jumped wave (we´ve got blue blankets for the wave ;) ).
In Canada and in Great Britain we sang a typical new year's song.
In Germany, Sweden and Finland they melted a metal (tin!) and put in cold water to see the staff's future. In germany they also give little toys to wish luck.
For Guatemala' s celebration we watched a video with their fire works and they also had fake champain.
Isabel, our JC sang a tipical Philipine's new year's song.
USA brought a video that show us how it's  the New Year in New York city.
To celebrate Peru' s we went running around the campsite with luggages ´to represent we are going to travel in the year that is comming. For Peru's and Costa Rica's celebration we had to wear something yellow to represent good luck and something red to represent love.
We got a lot of party stuffs, like hat, neckless, masks to celebrate the new year's here, in Costa Rica. We had a greeeeeat party and everybody had a lot of fun, dancing a lot!
During the whole day we counted the last 10 seconds of each country, starting with Thailand at eleven am and finishing with Costa Rica at midnight.
We had a great 2009 ending and a wonderful 2010 beggining!!!

Brazil Delegation