Our monastery enjoys celebrating the Asian New Year, and this year our Vietnamese Sr. Mary Christine organized another wonderful Tet celebration, this year being the year of the horse.
The evening began with Sr. Mary Christine and Sr. Mary Giuse singing a song in Vietnamese.
Then we called up all our sisters born in the year of the horse and Sr. Mary Christine read the characteristics of “horses”. Some of them were accurate!
Sr. Mary Veronica, Sr. Mary Rose, Sr. Mary Magdalene, and Sr. Maria Guadalupe–all of our sisters born in the year of the horse!
We then divided into two teams, the white horses and the black horses, and played games with an equestrian theme. For the first game, a member of each team sat in a chair and stamped her feet to try to be the first to scrunch up a long sheet of newspaper.
Sr. Miriam pulls at the newspaper as fast as she can!
The next game was a horse race, where a member from each team blew through a straw to try to make her horse race across a table to get to the finish line (falling off the table) first.
Sr. Mary Giuse and Sr. Mary Therese start the horse race.
Sr. Mary Jeremiah and Sr. Mary Margaret blow their horses across the table.
Sr. Irma Marie and Sr. Bernadette Marie race to the finish line!
The third game was another horse race. A sister from each team sat in a chair and raced against the other, pulling her horse towards herself using toilet paper.
Sr. Mary Giuse and Sr. Mary Jeremiah each want their horse to win!
But in the end, we were all winners and got to choose prizes.
Sr. Mary Jeremiah, Sr. Mary Therese, and Sr. Marie Augustine with their Tet goodies.
As usual, we all enjoyed this celebration of Vietnamese culture. The music, food, and games are a fun way for us to celebrate the diversity of our monastery.
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