Day 29- Cultural Performance Preparation and Cultural Performance

Met the class at 10.20am today to prepare for the cultural performance which starts at 7pm. We were quite sian (non-dance people) but towards the end, was quite pressurised because of the lack of time. Anyway, at about 6pm plus, we left the classroom for the lecture theatre where we'll be performing. (It was really really small!)



Sweets and snacks were provided on the table. Hehehe :)

Yan Fang, Cindy and Kimberley

The China students

First presentation put up by the MDE students

They are wearing ethnic costumes

One of the first few performances put up by the China students

Presentation by MDE

Gassing-- a game China and Singapore students played

Performance by China students

A China student who could sing pretty well

One of my favourite performance put up by the MDE students-- a shadow puppet show :)

And of course, our very own LSCT performance! Main characters are Hana and Eddy

Yan fang, the taxi driver

We thought our performance was quite good :D although we didn't have much time to prepare

A dance by the China students

Remember the Xie Shao Guang show?? Yes, the MDE guys sang this song! :D Miss the show so much!! (The actor above is not Xie Shao Guang though. Haha)

Song and dance by MDE students

A combined performance by MDE students

The whole performance ended at about 9 plus, close to 10 and after that, we went back to our classroom to put back the tables and watched the video of us performing. Awesome :)

Reflection

Tonight had been one of the most nervous yet exciting nights ever in Wuhan! Nervous because all of us were afraid we would screw up the performance. Exciting because there were so many performances put up by the China and MDE students. We definitely had lots of fun today. No doubt, it had been really tiring practising and spending almost the whole day in class but the result was really rewarding.

Regarding the performance we put up, it's about this foreign exchange student from America who came to Ngee Ann and experience school life and Singapore's lifestyle and culture. We actually showed the China students many things about Singapore such as the over-usage of acronyms, the ERP system, choping place with tissues or umbrellas, NDP, and many more! I was glad to hear that Betty (A China student) was able to understand the skit and many of them enjoyed it!

As for the MDE students performance, I thought it was good too because they covered a more wide variety of topics such as races in Singapore, cultural games, history of Singapore and many others. I thought they were actually quite well prepared and they were very organised.
Now, for the China students' performance, I thought they were very entertaining becuase some of the skits were really amusing although some of us couldn't catch the jokes but overall, they put up many performances and we really enjoyed ourselves. However, I thought they could put up more performances regarding the school life here in China or their China culture. I think that would be even better! But I still love what they had prepared for us!

Overall, I thought tonight was wonderful!