{"id":1085,"date":"2009-12-09T17:13:25","date_gmt":"2009-12-09T23:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/?p=1085"},"modified":"2009-12-09T17:13:25","modified_gmt":"2009-12-09T23:13:25","slug":"judging-the-christmas-carol-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/blog\/2009\/judging-the-christmas-carol-competition.html","title":{"rendered":"Judging the Christmas Carol Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/gallery\/f\/carol-competition.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/images\/christmas-carol-competition.jpg\" width=\"475\" height=\"80\" border=\"1\" alt=\"Students at the Christmas Carol Competition\" \/><\/a><br \/><font size=\"-1\"><i>Students at the English Christmas Carol Competition, with some parents looking on.<br \/>Click the photo to visit the gallery, then click it there for a large version.<\/i><\/font><\/center><br \/>This morning Shari and I went to a local public Junior High to help judge an <b>English Christmas Carol Competition<\/b> (well, Christmas <i>song<\/i> competition anyway). &nbsp;Just call us <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/story\/CTVNews\/20061218\/sass_jordan_bio\/20061218\/?s_name=idol2007\">Sass<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ctv.ca\/servlet\/ArticleNews\/idol\/CTVShows\/1076175978702_71584657\/\">Jake<\/a>&#8230; or not.<\/p>\n<p>We were joined by <a href=\"http:\/\/ixtapalucafryed.blogspot.com\/2009\/12\/christmas-carols-mexican-jr-hi-style.html\">Rod Fry<\/a> and three people from the school. &nbsp;I believe there were 10 songs, and about 500 students involved.<\/p>\n<table height=\"285\" align=\"left\">\n<tr>\n<td><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/images\/carol-winners.jpg\" width=\"275\" height=\"237\" hspace=\"5\" vspace=\"5\" border=\"0\" alt=\"The winning team celebrates!\" \/><br \/><font size=\"-1\"><i>The winning team celebrates!<\/i><\/font><\/center><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>They all did a good job, singing songs like <i>We Wish You A Merry Christmas<\/i>, <i>Rocking Around the Christmas Tree<\/i>, and <i>The Little Drummer Boy<\/i>, with costume (in addition to their regular uniforms) and choreography.<\/p>\n<p>Each grade had a winning group, and the overall winner was from the youngest grade (<i>We Wish You A Merry Christmas<\/i>).<\/p>\n<p>Shari and I were among those who handed out the winning certificates, and <i>we<\/i> even got a certificate for our participation.&nbsp; \ud83d\ude42 <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s neat to have a connection to this local school. &nbsp;We may be able to have some visitors (English speaking ones) help out with the English at the school sometime, although the teachers seem to be doing a great job too.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cottrillcompass.com\/gallery\/\">Check out our photo gallery for more photos.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Students at the English Christmas Carol Competition, with some parents looking on.Click the photo to visit the gallery, then click it there for a large version.This morning Shari and I went to a local public Junior High to help judge an English Christmas Carol Competition (well, Christmas song competition anyway). &nbsp;Just call us Sass and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6,18],"tags":[465,467,107,466],"class_list":["post-1085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mexico","category-ministry-glimpses","category-prayer-and-praise","tag-christmas-carol-competition","tag-english-christmas-carol-competition","tag-ixtapaluca","tag-las-palmas","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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