Last week was the college’s Sports Meeting, so we all had 3 days of holiday whilst the students took part in various races and events on the athletics track and set off fireworks fairly continuously, day and night. We didn’t get involved in any of the actual ‘Meeting’ but we were fully immersed in the opening ceremony, which fell on the last day of Dad’s visit and was quite an impressive send-off.
We went out early to watch the events unfold and before we knew it we were part of the parade.
There were lots of flags…
There was lots of red…
And, of course, there were lots of balloons. If one of them popped there was uproar.
Here we are marching past the judges and important looking people in the Foreign Languages parade.
We didn’t have a clue what we were doing and just sort of strolled around waving at our ‘fans’ in the crowd.
Then there was some dancing and some Tai Chi.
Here are some of the freshers dancing to High School Musical’s ‘We’re All In This Together’.
Afterwards, in a natural progression from ceremonial grandeur, there was a tug-of-war tournament for the teachers.
We got dragged in to join the Foreign Languages Department, waited about an hour for our turn and then failed miserably. Perhaps we weren’t all pulling our weight…
Can’t fault Chrissy’s efforts though.
Our humiliating defeat was rewarded with big bags of washing powder that were brought round to our apartments later that morning. I doubt we will ever comprehend why.
Just another day at Pingxiang College.