Pre-Independence Day Activities

Dominica Independence Day is actually October 29th but Dominicans love to celebrate! Friday, Oct. 22, students gathered in the "stadium" in Roseau to sit in the hot sun and listen to long, boring speeches by government and education officials who loudly and proudly patted themselves on the back for the great job they're doing to educate the "future of Dominica!" Can you see the "winding roads of Dominica" being formed by this "precision marching group"???? Neither could we! Nor could we see the "mountain peaks" or the letters "D and A"!

This group of Portsmouth students performed a cultural dance . . .

. . . and these gymnast-students proudly displayed a large Dominican flag.