|
The ever-expanding OCCS celebrated the “Fifteenth of the Eighth
Moon”, and the National Day on October 1,2006 at its new site, Perry
Middle School. Over 400 students and their parents came to the joyful
event. The party started at 5pm after all the Chinese and Cultural
Classes were over. Everyone enjoyed the box dinner and the feature
course of dessert, a piece of moon cake donated by Huaxin Supermarket.
The cute and palatable moon cake can’t be omitted from the Mid-Autumn
Festival because of its traditional symbolism.After the dinner, around
6pm, Haiyuan Gao, Chair of the Cultural Classes Department, announced
the commencement of the celebration. He informed the party-goers of
the activity plan: students stay in the gym, playing all the games
prepared by the volunteers,word puzzles and puzzles of the names of
the cities and countries around the world prepared by Minru Li,former
chair of the parent committee. Adult Karaoke fans go to the music room
to sing at top of their lungs and dancers move with grace and rhythm
to the music. In his announcement, Mr.Gao congratulated Jingjing Chen,
a former SAT Verbal class student of Worthington Thomas high school,
on her making the list of National Merit Scholarships Semifinalist.
Max Dengke Xu, the school principal, spoke next. He extended good
wishes to everyone on behalf of the school administration team,
wishing all to have a great time. He announced that there would be
drawings every 30 minutes. The prizes were donated by the local
restaurants such as Sunflower, Hongkang Buffet, E Chen’s, and Eastern
Bay, totaling about $400 worth of gift certificates.Then the
celebration started off. People were so engrossed in the activities
that no one was aware of the passage of time.The day is considered a
harvest festival since fruits, vegetables and grains have been
harvested by this time of the year and food is abundant. Our
celebration was a perfect match of that definition by its abundance of
food, 485 prizes that people played to win, and $400 gift certificates
if their ticket numbers got picked. But most important of all was the
fun that everyone had, which was priceless and everlasting. |
