Imagine... Whirled Peace!

The girl's school celebrated International Day of Peace 2009 by making "pinwheels for peace". It was part of a worldwide effort to promote peace. Their website estimated that there were 3 million pinwheels spinning on September 21st, 2009, in countries around the world! Their principal spoke about ways of promoting peace within their school and the whole school sang, "Give Peace a Chance". Then each child planted their pinwheel. It was a very pretty site and turned out to be a nice day even though we've had a lot of rain.

Tessa and her classmates blowing their pinwheels while waiting for everyone to gather.

Holding up their pinwheels

Jesikah with her classmates and pinwheel

Jesikah again

Jesikah letting Jarem hold her pinwheel.

Most of the kids all held up their pinwheels while the principal was talking.

Another view, you can see Jesikah from behind

Jesikah standing next to her teacher, Mrs. Watson, during the principal's speech.

Tessa planting her pinwheel

Not a great picture of Jesikah, but her shirt was planned, "Give Peas a Chance". It was the same as the song they sang with the exception of the Peace for Peas.

Jesikah also had peace socks that matched.

Jesikah after planting her pinwheel. I had my telephoto lens on because I wanted to get some good distance closeups, but as it turned out I didn't need it. It was hard to get all of her unless I backed way up.

Below: a few photos of the pinwheels after the kids went inside.