Debre Markos University Idol Talent Show

Can you read this? It says DMU English Language Talent Show

 Fellow English teacher Meseret and ELIC coordinator, Zelalem, who is totaling the judges' scores.

                                                    Habtamu singing in the competition.

Blindfold Cake Eating contest. The girl on the right won a 25 birr phone card.

Meaza and Fasika. Meaza is our DJ.

Last night at Debre Markos University, the ELIC (English Language Improvement Center) hosted the Debre Markos University Idol Talent Show. There were four categories they competed in: Music, drama, debate and literary arts. We put out an announcement about this competition several months ago and students have been preparing in their dorms. Three days before the competition, we had the tryouts, where four judges eliminated about one third of the contestants. On the day of the Talent Show, everything went as planned, except that our audience only included 4 university instructors and no one from the administration. It was not even well attended by the students. This was a bit disappointing. The best thing was that about 15 students from the two high schools we have been doing outreach with showed up to watch and participate. The Preparatory School (grades 11 and 12) even prepared dance, debate, and literary arts performances. I admit, these kids made our day. They were more enthusiastic than the university students and participated in most of the games we had prepared like the Blindfold Cake Eating Contest and the Bottle Shoot. The winners of the talent show will go to Bahir Dar on an experience sharing trip to compete with, no surprise, students at  private high school. The ELIC will host at least one more talent show in which we hope to attract more university students and staff to come and watch.