Working Up A Zumba Sweat In Christchurch

By Andrew Oswin

The Canterbury Down Syndrome Association celebrated World Down Syndrome Day on March 25, at the Matuku Takotako Sumner Community Centre. We all had such a lovely and sunny day with so many people of all ages who participated in interactive activities. Some Zumba instructors got us motivated to get involved with Zumba which music got played from the stereo, some of us played with mixture of bubbles, had an ice cream from the Real Fruit Ice Cream truck, a drink of coffee from the coffee cart and DJ Josie put on a lively disco so that everyone could have a dance. The workers from Real Fruit Ice Cream made 83 ice creams and that is really huge. The Press media got involved with film and photograph coverage and I got interviewed twice by them. I really enjoyed celebrating World Down Syndrome Day with my friends and fellow colleagues from the Canterbury Down Syndrome Association. I would like to thank the Real Fruit Ice Cream workers

and the coffee cart workers for their generous hospitality. I would also like to thank the Zumba instructors teaching us how to do Zumba, the Sumner Community Centre for giving us the hire of the venue and to Josie Noble for the disco. A very special thank you goes out to Diane Mulholland and Donna Higgs for helping with the organising and to The Press for the coverage.

Andrew Oswin STRIVE Editorial Committee Member Christchurch