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On Friday 14 July the MICS students had a kite party at the ABFA airstrip. They each had made and decorated their own kite in the classroom and this was the chance to see if they would fly. We started out with a surprise activity provided by Dorien Visser, a volunteer from Holland. She had a large parachute silk that was used for some games to see how the parachute reacted to the wind and student handling. Balls were bounced in the parachute and a type of ring-around-the-rosie was played. Also, we all got a chance to see how much pull the wind had on a larger kite.

The one kite we used was Ronda's; one that her father had especially made for her emblazoned with Christian symbols of a cross and a dove.

After flying the kites, each student had an opportunity to "eat a kite and its tail" .The edible "kites" were pieces of bread cut in the diamond kite shape and the "tails" were strands of red licorice. Each student could put butter and cinnamon and sugar on their "edible kite" to decorate it before making it disappear as a snack.