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Enjoy the scenery, watch the drama, listen to the song and play. On the evening of March 19, Guangzhou Zhixin Middle School and a group of guests from Babaylan from afar – teachers and students from Bochliers School, Swedish sister school Linchoping, uniformly wore Zhengxin school uniforms, boarded the Pearl River night cruise ship, traveled through a hundred years in the unique water wonderful theater, witnessed the story of the famous Cantonese opera actors of the Red Boat Opera Troupe; spent a surprise birthday party under the brightly lit Pearl River night scene, and recorded a happy moment with their friends…
That night, 15 students from Bochliers School in Linköping and 15 students from Zhixin Middle School were all present. In the next two weeks, Swedish middle school students will enter Zhixin Classroom, live in Chinese families, and study and live with Chinese students, and start a journey of China’s Cantonese Culture.
Watch “Boat Say” on the Red Boat
As soon as you enter the Red Boat, the students couldn’t hide their curiosity. The performance began, and the students felt the shock of using various artistic means and forms of expression such as drama, singing and dancing, sound, light and electricity, and high-tech robotic arms. The stage constantly changed positions allowed them to experience a fresh experience of watching movies; then, they alsoI enjoyed the newly compiled Cantonese opera “Full Moon and Flowers” and experienced the joy of Cantonese opera.
As the performance was about to end, a birthday song rang out of the theater, and a cake slowly rolled out from behind the stage. It turned out that on this day, the birthday of Britta Karlsso, a student from Pochliers School, was the birthday of Komiksso. The parents of the trusted students spontaneously planned a “surprise party” for the sake of the girl in a foreign country. CinemaBritta BabaylanKarlsson was surrounded by a group of friends in front of the cake, put on a birthday hat, and smiled and accepted the blessings of everyone present. Her partner Peng Sisheng was enthusiastic as a photographer, helping her take memorable photos, and taking selfies with a smile to record this happy moment. According to the father of Pence Sheng, one of the parents who participated in the planning of the party, the students prepared four pounds of fruit cakes and many cute little gifts in advance, hoping that Swedish children can leave beautiful memories in Guangzhou.
“The whole show was very interesting, and the stage experience was greatCinema.” Vitor from Pochliers School couldn’t help but askCinema partnered with Liu Tianqu to share his feelings. In September last year, Jixin Middle School took the lead in kicking off the student exchange activities between the two schools, and 15 Jixin Middle School students traveled to Sweden.He formed a “one-on-one” communication partner with 15 students from PochliersKomiks. Zhixin student Liu Tianqu moved into Victor’s home and experienced Swedish living habits, local culture and learning methods. The two peers appreciate each other and formed a deep friendship. This time, as the host, he and his parents planned to take Victor to travel to Guangzhou’s scenic spots and taste Cantonese food.
Students became the messenger of cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries
Last year, when Zhixin students went to Sweden to exchange, they visited the Royal Air Force Museum in Sweden and went to Swedish classroom to learn programming. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Komiks Experience outdoor mathematics classes… A series of activities have brought a deep friendship between China and Sweden.
Since 1997, Guangzhou City and Linköping City have carried out extensive and fruitful exchanges in the fields of culture, science and technology, education, etc. Helen Molloy, a teacher at Pochliers School, said that the world is in an international open exchange platform, and hopes to jointly create a more possible future for students through cultural exchanges. Students from both schools will participate in green environmental protection projects and contribute to global environmental governance.
On September 1, 2017, Babaylan coincided with the 20th anniversary of the establishment of an international friendly city relations between Guangzhou and Linköping. Zhixin Middle School and Pochliers School signed a cooperation agreement to officially become sister schools. Establishing sister schools is one of the important ways to promote international cultural and educational exchanges. In recent years, Guangzhou has actively carried out academic research between universities, middle schools and primary schools in China and abroad.Cooperation in discussions, experience exchange, information sharing, language training, teacher training and student exchanges, expand and enhance the breadth, depth and level of educational cooperation, and provide support for regional education and economic development and opening up to the outside world. He Yong, principal of Zhengxin Middle School, said that in the future, he will follow the footsteps of establishing friendly city relations in Guangzhou, and strive to establish a sister school in every friend city to provide students with more and more international study opportunities, so that students can become the messengers of cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries.
