One month ago the three freshman foreign teachers were
invited to a party. They arrived to classroom 502 and were greeted with
applause and cheers. Their class monitor (‘mother’) Julia was exceedingly
delighted to see them. The three foreign teachers were given ‘seats of honor’
as to watch the dozens and dozens of performances put on by their students.
This party was to help the class “come together”. They are practically like
family, enduring every day of the next 4 years in the same classroom together,
eating together, living together. Class 502, known as “The Bright Skies”,
wanted to get to know one another.
It wasn’t too long into the singing and laughing and dancing
that the foreign teachers were asked to put on a performance. The three women,
partially naive to Chinese parties came unprepared with anything perform [by
American standards]. They quickly learned that the beautiful thing about
Chinese culture is that simply putting your heart into a performance is all
that matters.
So with that, I leave you a glimpse of the party and
performance…
Please note, the best part of this video is not the foreign
teachers, but Julia clapping along in the background (the girl in the yellow
sweater), Raul being the DJ, and Evelyn, the videographer laughing along with
us.
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