It has been an adventurous past few days and I have been
unable to blog most of them. You know, I thought it would be easier to get
Internet in the States than it was in China, but I’m having issues with it here
as well. The only place I can upload text is on the bus. So, I’ll try my best
to keep you updated, but it might be somewhat delayed!
On Friday, we met our Chinese counterparts on our home turf.
They had never been on a football field before, so they were quite eager to
practice a little bit before displaying their field show. Valley Christian students practiced and
refined their music in the rehearsal hall, before heading up to the field to
show off a little bit and play our Danzon piece once again.
Then, our Chinese friends played their two mini shows. One
was Jasmine Flower, coincidentally one of the songs we’re playing in our
parade, and the other was a karate inspired piece complete with students
punching and kicking (not each other).
We then proceeded to the rehearsal hall and divided up into sections
in order to meet our Chinese counterparts that we were to give gifts to. Mine
was a very nice girl named Ding Baiying, People began mingling and actually
getting to know each other. Names were learned and emails were exchanged.
Similar to the basketball game in China, worlds collided when some valley
students decided to try and teach some Chinese students football. It was truly
an awesome thing to watch.
We then boarded the buses to make our way down South to our
Long Beach hotel. I was asleep for the majority of it, so, sadly, I have no
great stories to tell. Our arrival at the hotel ran smoothly and we all fell
headfirst into our beds and pummeled into dreamland as soon as we entered our
rooms.
(Pictures to come soon)
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