The Annual AIC Christmas Bazaar was the Sunday after Thanksgiving.
The Kigali Music School was asked to sing some carols so Aimable, the director asked if
I would accompany them... Well, for what they were going to do, Bruce was
the one to do that best! So on Sat... we went to rehearse with them.
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| About 4 were missing... but they sounded great!! |
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| The African style "Go Tell It on the Mountain" was my favorite. |
Then Sunday was the actual event. Since I was on the Bazaar team and Bruce had
to get the piano set up we went about 9:00. The president of Uganda was staying
in the Serena Hotel so security was tight.. but we got in with no trouble because we
had taken a taxi.. WHY? Well, Bruce had called our mechanic on Sat. night and
asked if we could get the brakes done before we left. He called Sunday morning and said "can i pick up the car today and do it"??? Ha! So, that left us without a car... but
he picked our car up to work on, we took a taxi and at the end of the day, he brought the car to the hotel.
Who says people don't want great customer service??
It worked out perfectly!
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| What can i say... but my adorable little Brazilian friend, Edna is a card! |
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| Marianne? and Mavis putting the AIC table together. |
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| The reception/entrance table is getting all the vendors set up and preparing for the crowd. |
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| These are our new t-shirts that Barbara had made in Germany! This is Fanny and Anne...running the front table. |
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| The vendors just arriving. |
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| Looks pretty sparse! |
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| But not for long ---Everyone is getting set-up! |
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| These ladies are from our church.... |
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| I shopped too late and missed all of these beautiful baskets and trays! They sold quickly. |
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| The Japanese Embassy getting into the spirit. |
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| More great stuff. |
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| Beautiful linens |
and handmade things.
AND THEN WE OPENED THE DOORS!
The choir looked great and were well-rehearsed...
Everyone enjoyed their carol singing.
Everyone enjoyed their carol singing.
Bruce, of course did a great job accompanying, too!
Christine directing on this one.
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| See Bruce back there??? |
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| And this was the scene at least 3-4 times from 11:00-3:30-- The electricity kept going off and on... |
There were several periods of raffle drawings since Nalini and Barbara
had collected over 100 prizes. Three of them were airline tickets!!
I ran the membership table next to Carliese selling raffle tickets and we had
a lot of fun... Guess we didn't get our pictures...??
Anyway.. This is one of our major fund raisers for AIC...
the Africa International Club
and this year we had over 600 come with an admission cost, just for
adults of 1,000RWF... which is about $1.60.
And all totaled with the vendors tables, gifts from the embassies and of
course, the raffle tickets.... we made over $6,000.
It was a very pleasant day.... lots of fun and knowing that we will
have that much money to give away to folks in need in Rwanda
made it even better!
love,
margie
ps.. i'm trying to get all the blogs done before i leave so please forgive any errors--
I'm hurrying way too fast.
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