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Chinese New Year Festival Entertains
by Vincent
Huang and
Jim Chen

Dancers heightening
enthusiasm for the
cultural celebration.

“Chinese New
Year gives us a
chance to refresh
ourselves and
associate
ourselves back to
the Taiwanese
community.”

Year 9s
lighten the
mood with
a Taiwanese
pop song
performance

During the
Languages
Festival
Week,
one of the
biggest
events is
the Chinese New
Year celebration held on
the last day of school before the Chinese New Year
break. We interviewed
Beatrice Blanc for some
interesting views on the
activity.
Chinese New Year is one of
the most important cultural
celebrations in the Taiwanese
culture. It is the time of the
year for all the Chinese people
to gather together with their
loved ones for a lovely family
dinner, the time where people
give out red envelopes and
also the time of the year
where you can feel the cheerful and effervescent atmosphere all over the country. As
an international school set in a
Chinese
community,
our school
has created
a Chinese
New Year
celebration
event that
combines
performances from
each sec-

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tions for every international
student to enjoy the atmosphere of Chinese New Year.
Staff members and students
were enjoying the shows and
laughing all the way through the
performances. Isn’t it nice to
start the last day of school with
a laugh and a smile with your
friends? Beatrice Blanc, who’s
currently studying in H3, has
shared with us some interesting
thoughts. She likes the performances especially the climax
of the day - the uproarious
Chinese drama performance.
She explains delightfully, “My
favourite part was the Chinese
drama performance because
the ferries have a lot of teachers involved. It is always good
to have teachers’ involvement
because this way students have
more chances to interact with
the teachers.” This year we
have eight different staff members enrolled in the performance. Each of them was representing eight different nationalities of ferries, including our
CEO, Dr. Weston, who acted
as the Jade Emperor. The engaging and provocative dances
that each staff member performed were certainly entertaining and humorous which
raised the atmosphere to the
peak of the event. Blanc also
says that she would love to
experience the joyful event
again next year.
When asked what it was like to
have the event take place on
the last day of school, she lets
out an enthusiastic gasp and
exclaims, “ Oh~ I think it is

really interesting because
Chinese New Year is the
week after so it gets people
into the spirit of Chinese
New Year.” We all know that
Chinese New Year brings us
a special kind of relaxing
feelings. Everywhere starts to
bustle with chuckles and
giggles, the cheerful atmosphere begins to appear all
over the place and it is just
nice to be ready to enter the
zone rig