My dairy game: A Cultural Day Celebration (27/3/2025)
Hi dear friends from this distinguished Cameroon community. How was your day going? Hope my friends here missed me. I am doing well here from the southern part of Nigeria. I had another fantastic and fun-filled day. I am here to give you how I celebrated a cultural day with the children. Being a Master of Ceremony in an occasion was a privilege. Stay back and enjoy sights and sounds that came from my day.
Cultural Celebration is a day in my school to commemorate unique cultural heritage that abound in our country, Nigeria. My school does not relent in puting a package every year to celebrate rich culture among the ethic groups in our country.
Every year, students are divided into four houses that represent the four major ethnic groups in the country, viz Hausa, Yoruba, Igbo, and Ibibio. During this day, every student appears in attire of each of the ethnic groups he or she belongs, speak their language, and behave like them. The essence of this is to treasure and present to the students why they should be proud of where they come from.
Although I am a teacher in the school, I was given an official invitation to be the Master of Celebration on that day. When I got this invitation, I was so excited that I would display my talent as usual. With this, my day started the day before that day, planning on how to best anchor the program to make it lively and interesting.
I woke up early by 5.30am, said my prayers, and then took bath. I had to reach the school early enough to mark my literature exams that my students took on Wednesday. I told you the other day here that as a Vice Principal Academics of my school, I had scheduled exams time table and the supervisors who would invigilate these exams. My exams was taken, and I had fixed a dateline for the final submission of result. Therefore, I had to also be committed to making sure the result was ready before Friday, the closing day. I was now trying to use one stone to kill two birds: marking my scripts before anchoring an event. It wasn't an easy task but I tried my best.
After a light breakfast -tea and bread, I put on my clothes and then left the house by 7.20am. The event was billed to start by 10am prompt. The parents and visitors were also expected to grace the occasion. I arrived the school by 8am. When I got there, few students were already on ground with their nice dressing, waiting for the big event to commence in no time.
I sat down, marked about 30 scripts out of 52. I wanted to get relieved after the event so I can have less scripts remaining to mark. The students performed so very well with the ones marked so far. By 9am, a great number of students and parents had started arriving with their beautiful and colourful attires.
In no distant time, all the four ethnic groups were already at the venue waiting for the commencement.
It was a beautiful sight to behold as all the students and pupils dressed in the attires of their various culture.
The event commenced in ernest exactly 11.50pm. It started a bit late because we had to wait for the chairman of the occasion to arrive. It was not just an event but a competition. These houses had to compete with each other on songs presentation, speech, debate, drama, dance and aa well as quiz competition.
About ninety percent of the afternoon activities took place in the school. By 12.10pm, the Chairman, Pst. Aniekan Moore had arrived, and as the MC, I kicked start the program by calling on a parent to lead in an opening prayer after which I constituted the head table and the panel of judges who will judge the presentation by different houses.
The competition began. First, it was song presentation, followed with dance, drama, quiz and food presentation. The students did a wonderful presentation that attracted a crowd.
The crowd was inexplicable. The sight was admirable. Although I was extremely hungry, there was no way I could leave the anchoring.
I comported myself until the event was over.
The result was announced. For speech, Enobong Sunday of Red House presented the best speech and was awarded N5000 in Nigerian currency equivalent to 15 steems. She was exceptional.
On the whole, the Pink House that represented the Igbo culture became the winners. The Igbo ethnic group of Nigeria occupies the South Eastern part of the nation. They are well known for their resilience in business. They contribute significantly to the economic growth of Nigeria. Take a look at them.
I really enjoyed doing my work as the Master of Ceremony. I made the event lively and funny. The program ended by 5.20pm after an entertainment by different houses.. I went back home very tired because I stood talking for about four hours.
When I reached home by 6pm, I had to relax for 30 minutes before I took bath to refresh myself and then ate my supper. I tried to create this post 9pm so I post before I finally sleep.
It was a day to remember. I thank God.
@solperez