Text: Bin He(何斌)

Photo: Lei Xu(徐蕾),Uqba Ramzan

Editor: Shanhong Liu(刘山洪),Stephen C. McClure

Three students, from School of Resource and Environmental Sciences, performed a hot and amazing opening dance that quickly grabbed the audience’s attention. The Leisure Hall was filled with warm applause and cheers.

Fig.1 Three Students Performing a Group Dance.

After the group dance, there was free talk. The hosts shared their experiences and Christmas wishes, and everyone talked about their wishes for the New Year. An international student talked about her Christmas wish for healthy baby, because she’s pregnant. Gong Jing,from the Chinese Geoscience Café, wished for more publishedpapers. Yumei Zeng from graduate student union and Yonghao Xun from English Corner also shared their wishes.

Fig.2 Smiling Audience

A student performed a fantastic solo dance, delighting the audience repeatedly.

Fig.3 Solo Dance

After the solo dance, we played games, starting with “Pick a Number”. The audience divided into four groups of four students to guess an already-selected number. The rules are as follows: The host chooses a secret number from 1 to 1000, then players take turns to choosing a number from 1 to 1000. If the number he/she choose doesn’t match the host’s number, the host will tell us the range of numbers and the next player tries to guess the right one. If the number he/she choose match the number chosen by the host, then he/she will take a small punishment and receive a special Christmas gift.

Fig.4 Playing the Pick a Number Game

Another talent show began after first game. One student played cucurbit flute instrument, which is one kind of Chinese traditional instruments. The sound of cucurbit flute is melodious and marvelous and ended with the warm applauses.

Fig.5 Playing the Cucurbit flute Instrument.

We also played “Grab the Microphone”. The rules are as follows:First, the participants should be divided into two groups for competition. And the host will play a fragment of a song for about 5 seconds. The participants need to guess the name of the song as quickly as possible. In every round, we count 1 point for the team more quickly getting the right name. If no team gets the right answer, we can repeat playing the song again but not over three times. We prepared 10 songs and the final winner belongs to the team which gets more points.

After a fierce competition, the game ended with the score 5:8. This section fully showed the singing talent of the participants, which aroused the audience’s cheers repeatedly.

Fig.6 Participants were playing “Grab the Microphone”.

“Chopsticks Game” was the last game we played. The rules of “Chopsticks Game” are as follows:1)Everybody stands in a circle. 2) Game starts with people who have one chopstick and finishes when a person who collect a pair of chopsticks. Who succeed in collecting a pair of chopsticks is regarded as loosing the game, then, get punishments. 3) Initially, the person who has one chopstick in hand should paly the Rock-Paper-Scissors game with another person sit on his/her left hand. Only when he or she wins the finger-guessing, then can give the chopstick to the loser; otherwise he or she should still hold the chopstick and turn to the right side playing the Rock-Paper-Scissors game with another person again.

All the audiences took part in “Chopsticks Game”. Participants played this game happily and crazily. Their laughter filled the Leisure Hall.

Fig.7 Participants were playing “Chopsticks Game”.

After the last game we handed out Christmas Gifts. EGSC prepared plenty of gifts for everyone, including Christmas socks, Santa hats, wooden Christmas calendar, Christmas apples, Christmas cards and Christmas Crystal lamps. The host handed out the gifts to all participants.

Fig.8 Participants were receiving prizes.

The Christmas activity ended with a smiling group photo. Everyone had a wonderful time.

Fig.9Group Photo

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