Chinese Celebration

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MARTYN AND BECKY LI!
Day two of International Languages Week and we celebrate the Chinese culture. I should mention that yesterday’s day of celebration was actually Spanish (hence the pinyata competition). Today we managed to get the music playing outside the music room sliding door during interval. Yesterday I forgot to bring a CD of cultural music but luckily Caleb had some cool Japanese music on his laptop so we managed to get a CD burnt in time for interval. The main attraction of the day of course was at lunch time with the Chinese food being sold in front of B Block. Now I knew that Chinese food was always popular during International Languages Week, but I didn’t think it would be THIS popular. By the time I arrived at the food stall, all the spring rolls were already sold out. Now that’s what I call fast food! The fried rice was on its way out too by the looks of it.

After lunch I went to the junior assembly with Luke and some of the other Prefects before going down to the sports pavilion to help with the clean up of pots and pans and woks and utensils. When I arrived at the pavilion, it looked like everything was under control in the way of washing, so I helped wipe down some tables. After that I felt a little redundant because I didn’t know what to do. Ji Eun was practising for Bring It On so I asked if she could teach me a few moves from their performance. It wasn’t easy, let me tell ya! The 8 moves that I learned in 15 minutes was merely 10 seconds in their performance which was several minutes in total. If I struggled remembering the order of those moves, I think I would have no chance remembering everything in their routine.

Ms Hsiao asked us to go around school and take down all the advertisements of Chinese food from windows and classroom doors so the remainder of the period was spent doing that. Tomorrow… Japanese Day!