Thursday -- February 3, 2011
Kung Hee Fat Choy, Highlands! Despite the abcence of firecrackers ringing pow! pow! pow! throughout the hallways, Highlands Intermediate resolutely celebrated Chinese New Year with a bang! Highlands Intermediate's very own, students from Mr. Fong's Highlands Lion Dance Club, executed a dazzling and exciting performance for all to witness and behold during our normally slow lunch break.
It's a good thing that for us that according to Chinese tradition the Lion Dance brings good luck, prosperity and blessings. Well, we got plenty of it and an awesome performance and entertainment to boot! The student troupe, dancers and percussionists, started at the Front Office, danced through the packed lunchtime hallways and finally ended up in the PE Courtyard for a grand finale!
Mrs. Martinson and a few others fed the lion lycee with bamboo poles for good luck and the lion had to perform it's very best in order to eat! And feast the lion did as all five lycee were consumed in a swirl of color and ferocity. We'll have to wait until next year for the Highlands Lion Dance Club to amaze us again but at least we have all that the bang! and pow! to last us until then.
It's a good thing that for us that according to Chinese tradition the Lion Dance brings good luck, prosperity and blessings. Well, we got plenty of it and an awesome performance and entertainment to boot! The student troupe, dancers and percussionists, started at the Front Office, danced through the packed lunchtime hallways and finally ended up in the PE Courtyard for a grand finale!
Mrs. Martinson and a few others fed the lion lycee with bamboo poles for good luck and the lion had to perform it's very best in order to eat! And feast the lion did as all five lycee were consumed in a swirl of color and ferocity. We'll have to wait until next year for the Highlands Lion Dance Club to amaze us again but at least we have all that the bang! and pow! to last us until then.
