Mid-Autumn Funfair

Today is a very happy day. Though I stayed up very late till this morning (burnt midnight oil), I felt very energetic the whole day. To begin with, we had a fun P.E. lesson playing ball games, followed by a confusing but amusing A-math lesson consolidating our function graph skills. Mrs Sabar then lightened up our day with an equally amusing lesson dealing with Source-Based Questions. As for the long-awaited English lesson, we had the honour to have Mr Arther Kok as our "relief Teacher". He made us write an essay within 40 mins. I was proud that I finished it, though it had a quite abrupt ending. However, the real highlights for today came after lunch and dinner.

After school, we reluctantly shuffled towards AVA1 to have the video conference lesson on Chinese Literature with a HongKong school. The topic for today was surprisingly one of my favourate topics:射雕英雄传(hoho:) I spent the whole session reading the addictive novel without paying attention to anything around me until at around five, Mr Cai told us that there were some technical problems about the computer programme that the vedio conference was cancelled. I was supposed to be disappointed, but not in the slightest. I was eager to go home and download other chapters.

There was Mid-Autumn Festival performance tonight which contributed to the second hignlight of today's activities. To do the council duty, I had to hurry out of the computer lab at around six. With my brains filled with 郭靖, 黄蓉, 欧阳锋, 杨康 and those complex relations between them, I came to school and had an expected shock: various stalls were about to attract customers! I was excited to meet Mr Cai again in his casual clothes and we discussed a bit about射雕英雄传. His class was to sell ice creams=P

We strolled around and refused to dodge at a mask stall. Because we had long been knowing that there would be a masquerade on 18th Oct in our hostel's gallery hall, we found this a great chance to attemp some new things. Unfortunately, the masks were not appaling enough that almost everyone could spot out who was behind the mask, so I did not buy it. Masquerade has always been an eerie form of entertainment to me under the influence of two novels: Edgar Alan Poe's short story on the Red Death Ghost and The Phantom of the Opera, in which the masquerade became an excellent occasion for some mysterious and scary thing to happen.

Then we began to participate in the funfair. We stopped at the PSG stall to learn the handcrafting skills. I really appreciated the patience of those parents, having to handle with so many "students" yet being so helpful all the time! I made a ring chain in three colours: yellow, red and white. Mary said my chain was very Chinese. Indeed! Though it was quite outdated from the trendy point of view, the colour combination was pretty meaningful. Red and yellow, the royal colours in ancient China; and white, the symbol of purity as well as the colour of our school uniform;) I also made a bottle of solidified wax with colourful sand and seashells. I love it.

After that, we found some friends with lanterns loistering around happily so we hurried to get one for ourselves. Those lanterns fit the jubilant and romantic atmosphere very well. In the far back of my memory, I could see the eight-year-old me holding an electronic lantern that could "sing". It was a lovely rabbit with a drum:) My sister's was a cartoon duck, it was cute, too. However, her lantern made everybody laugh as they passed by because the "song" that the duck playing was too weird(hah hah)

I also went to guess the lantern "myths"(??!) I was not good at it at all! Perhaps my brain cells were all sealed up or they agglutinated together that I could not get a single one correct! My sister was a super pro and in great contrast, she got three correct within 5mins(*applause*)

Later on, we went to support our senior's Xiang Sheng.(Hmm... not bad) There was not enough laughter I think, perhaps people in Nan Hua got too used to it. Actually, both performers are not very comical people. They should get more amusing characters like Zhao Stone and William Jr. Brown alike, I surmise:)

At the moment of departure, Guoshuai daunted all of us with his crazy phototaking. Quite qualified for a papparazzi, he was able to catch all the strange human shapes from incredible angles. He indeed brought excitement to us all, though it was time to calm down I think.

Now it is quite late, and I still want to finish my 射雕英雄传. Good night everybody, and happy Mid-Autumn.

I wish you all are happy there, too.