Last Day in Tianjin

July 10 was our last day at Nankai University. Students took their final language exams in the morning and prepared for leaving in the afternoon. The College treated us a nice banquet for lunch, and then we had the closing ceremony.


After several talks by the Dean and teachers, students received their certificates at the ceremony. They also presented what they had learned in the Taichi and Chinese classes. Below are the film strips of their performances:



The form they practiced was Young style Taichi of 24 movements. Students learned this form by getting up daily at 7 AM for four weeks. It was supposed to be a part of course for training perseverance.

After Taichi, there were three skits performed by three student groups. Each group prepared a short skit to reflect what they learned from the language classes. Due to the size of the films, only one of them is shown here:




All three of the students in the skit attended the elementary class. It was quite an accomplishment that they could use their language skills to entertain the audience.

At the end, Monica and Robyn also spoke and thanked the teachers. We also took a group picture with the Taichi Instructor: Zhang Laoshi.