On Wednesday we celebrated Chinese New Year, the year of the Rabbit. Our Chinese students spent the afternoon watching Chinese Central Television and on the phones to their families in China, at 16:00 it was Chinese New Year!
Later on during the day the Great Hall and Dining Room was transformed into a small piece of China, with traditional decorations, Chinese writing and photos of the 12 animals of the Chinese Zodiac. The colour primarily used is red to warn away evil spirits!
The students then went to work in the kitchen, supervised by Head Chef Atti, they prepared some traditional dishes using tofu, prawns, pork, noodles, fish, fresh ginger and Chinese spices.
At 18:00 the rest of the school arrived, they had all been asked to wear something red, and were greeted by Narsher and Derek. Once seated there was a speech read by Angela in English and Gin in Chinese, the speech was about the history of Chinese New Year and ended with Kung Hei Fat Choy meaning Happy New Year. After a rapturous applause everyone sampled the food and thoroughly enjoyed it.
After dinner we headed back to the Clock Tower and as Prep was cancelled for the evening we all enjoyed the Chinese music in the disco.
Congratulations to all of the students who made Chinese New Year 2011 a great success.
This is so cool!! Well done and wishing all a very happy Chinese New Year!!
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