Parade of Nations - ACS International Day

Here are some photos from the Parade of Nations.  I think I got *most* of them but there were still some nations not represented in the parade that had booths (like Russia and Ukraine).  I thought it would be good to take a bunch of these photos (even though the quality isn't great from where I was standing) just to remember all these countries and the kids who were marching under these flags.

Students are gathering with their flag.  The KG1 and KG2 students are making the peace sign in the middle of the field.

Before the parade starts, the little ones get to go to the bleachers to watch it.

The UAE leads the parade after the UAE national anthem

Armenia

Australia

Austria

Our one Bangladeshi!

Brazil - it was a larger contingency than this but they were very spread out

Big Canadian group

China

Sizable Colombian group - including our Colombian/ Canadian elementary principal and his family

Denmakr

Ecuador

Big group from Egypt - again, more behind this group but hard to get in one photo

Tiny Finland group

France

Germany

Greece

Honduras

India

Indonesia

Iran.  I know this group could have been bigger but some of the kids walked under different flags

Iraq

Ireland

Italy got patriotic with their giant flag - also a bigger group than shown here

Japan

Jordan - this was another big group (not all in this photo)

Lebanon - was a huge group!

More from Lebanon - and very organized as they had a lot of matching shirts

Luxemburg - two families!

Mexico - Regan's good friend Rachael is in the middle carrying the flag

Morocco

Netherlands

New Zealand

Norway

Big Pakistan group

Big Palestine group

More Palestinians

Panama

The Philippines

Portugal

Saudi Arabia

Scotland

Serbia - Meredith's friend was *not* happy to be one of the only kids in Serbia.  She would have preferred a larger group to be a little more anonymous!

Singapore

Sri Lanka

Enthusiastic group from South Africa

Big group from South Korea

Spain

Sudan

Sweden

Switzerland

Big group from Syria

More Syrians

Taiwan

Tunisia

Happy group from Turkey

Tiny group from the UK as most Brits go to the British system schools (way more of them in Abu Dhabi)

Venezuela

Vietnam

Yemen

Yemen always gets run over by the giant, crazy crowd from the US

Jane and her friend Ameera are in the top middle of this photo - Jane in navy shirt with pony tail swishing.  Regan is in the upper left with the two braids and gray shirt to the left of the girl in light green

Lady Liberty in the parade, too