Diversity Is.......

This past Tuesday night we attended an awards ceremony that honored a number of students in our district who participated in the annual "PTA Reflections" program.  This is a nationwide program in many schools that encourage students to use their artistic talents in drawing, writing, dance, music, or photography to reflect a certain theme or idea.  Teachers at Nathan's school encouraged students to participate and Nathan wanted to write something for this year's theme, which was "Diversity Is....."

Nathan, receiving his medal from his principal

We received word a few months ago that Nathan's writing piece was chosen to advance to the district level and was later given "Honorable Mention at the District Level" (an honor only a few received).  He was invited to attend this ceremony on Tuesday to receive a certificate and medal from his principal and our School Superintendent, as well as have part of his entry read.

Although we know Nathan is very excited about having a little brother join our family soon, it was really fun to see him express it in his writing and to see how it fit so well with the theme of diversity.  Here's what he wrote:

Diversity is great!

Diversity is different people.

Diversity is being friends with Joy from China.

Diversity is good!

Diversity is adopting my little brother YS from South Korea.

Diversity is great!

Diversity is speaking a different language like Spanish or Tagalog.

Diversity is cool!

Joy is a good friend of Nathan's who he originally met in preschool, and still gets together with for playdates.  Tagalog is the language spoken in the Philippines, and, thanks to our dear friend Rachel who is currently a missionary in the Philippines, Nathan's learned a few fun Tagalog phrases and songs too!

Congratulations on your accomplishment, Nathan!  We're proud of you!  Diversity is cool!

P.S.  We recently just announced our upcoming adoption fundraising dinner to help us raise support to bring Joshua home.  Click here to read more about it and to RSVP - we'd love to see you there!