As mentioned before, my busy semester had me scrambling away with hardly enough time to get to bed before 11 p.m. Very little space in my day was available for website updating so let me remedy that a bit with this news concerning closing off 2016.
The School’s New Year’s/Anniversary Gala
2016 marked the year when Luzhou Vocational and Technical College celebrated 115 years since its founding in 1901. This was a huge deal, especially since we had just moved to a new campus, and the administration wanted a celebration to mark this milestone.
It was decided that a grand 2-hour performance celebration would take place in the new auditorium (seating 1,000) on Dec. 30, 7 p.m., before the new year was upon us. For 3 months, students and faculty prepared for this grand affair, and what a show! Over 100 teachers volunteered for the big choir number for our opening. This was directed by one of the music teachers. Students prepared traditional dance numbers. We had poetry reading with a power-point slideshow in the background of historical pictures and current ones of the new campus. The art department’s teachers gave us a lot of laughs with a humorous skit. The retired teachers (all women, ages 55 – 75) added their talents with an intriguing, cute, and quite difficult, choreographed dance routine. The finale included everyone lining the auditorium aisles, singing with gusto as our operatic teachers from the music department belted out a patriotic number from the stage.
Quite a memorable performance!
Here are a few photos of the evening. Certainly puts to shame anything a US college would have put together, that’s for sure. Seeing such school pride displayed by students, faculty and administrators alike was truly inspiring. Looking at the pictures below, I think you’ll agree.
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