Text/Jinyang.com reporter Liu Yun, Lin Shiyan, Xie Chang
Photo/Jinyang.com reporter Li Li Liu Yun
Enjoy the scenery, watch dramas, listen to music, and play. On the evening of March 19, Guangzhou Zhixin Middle School and a group of guests from afar – teachers and students from the Swedish sister school Pochliers School, 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 view, and recorded a happy moment with friends…
This night, 15 students from the Pochliers School in Linköping and 15 students from the Pearl River were in the href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>KomiksStudents and families were 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 to study and live, and start a Chinese Cantonese cultural journey.
Watch “Boat Say” on the Red Boat
As soon as you enter the Red Boat, the students couldn’t hide their curiosity. At the beginning of the performance, 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 dance station that constantly changed positions allowed them to experience the fresh experience of watching movies; then, they also enjoyed the newly edited Cantonese opera “Full Moon and Flowers” and experienced the joy of Cantonese opera.
The performanceKomiks is about to end, and a birthday song sounds from the theater.A cake slowly rolls out from behind the stage. It turned out that this day was the birthday of Britta Karlsson, a student from Pochliers School. The parents of the students spontaneously planned a “surprise party” for the sake of the foreign girl Cinema child. Britta Karlsson was surrounded by a group of friends in front of the cake, put on a birthday hat, and smiled and accepted the blessings of the owner of the Babaylan venue. Her partner Pence Sung was enthusiastic to be a photographer, helping her take memorable photos and take selfies with a smile to record this happy moment. According to Papa Pence, 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 could leave beautiful memories in the state of Guangzhou.
“The whole performance was very interesting, and the stage experience was great.” Vitor, a student from Pochliers School, couldn’t help but share his feelings with his partner Liu Tianqu. In September last year, Zhixin Middle School took the lead in kicking off the student exchange activities between the two schools. 15 Zhixin Middle School students went to Sweden to form a “one-on-one” exchange partner with 15 students from Pochliers School. Zhixin student Liu Tianqu moved to VictCinemaor’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 Zhixinxue went to Sweden for exchanges, under the leadership of Swedish students, they visited the Royal Air Force Museum in Sweden, went to Swedish classrooms to learn programming, and experienced outdoor mathematics classes… A series of activities have led to a deep friendship between China and Sweden.
Since 1997, Guangzhou City Komiks and Komiks have conducted extensive and fruitful exchanges in cultural, technological, and education. Helen Molloy, a teacher at Pochliers School, said that the world is in an international open exchange platform. Among Cinema, we hope to Cinema can 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.
September 1, 2017, coincided with the 20th anniversary of the establishment of an international friendly city relations between Guangzhou and Lincoln. ZhixinKomiks Middle School and Pochliers School signed a cooperation agreement to officially become sister schools. The sister schools were concluded, is one of the important ways to promote international cultural and educational exchanges. In recent years, Guangzhou has actively carried out cooperation in academic seminars, experience exchanges, information sharing, language training, teacher training and student exchanges among Chinese and foreign universities, middle schools and primary schools to expand and enhance the depth and level of educational cooperation, and provide support for regional education and economic development and opening up to the outside world.
Zhixin Middle School Principal He Yong said that in the future, Cinema will follow the footsteps of establishing friendly city relations in Guangzhou, and strive to establish a sister school in each friendly city to provide students with more international research and study opportunities and let students become the messenger of cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries.
