Joy, Me and MareenI’m lucky, aren’t I? This semester I picked the topic “drama,” and, dahlah! Here they are! Performances everywhere beside me! This time we are no longer the audience sit in front of the stage, we have our costumes on and act!
Divided into six groups, our class is going to prepare for a small English context. It would be like the miniature of the Grand English Drama.
Our group decided to move the Holly Wood movie MIB on the stage. We adapted some of the details to saving characters from the fairytales that doesn’t know one another are fierce aliens.. For instance, we have to save Princess Snow White, for she doesn’t know her dwarfs are from Mars and shall eat her after the afternoon tea. I acted as the senior agent K, Eric as agent J. we really enjoyed making cool poses with guns in our hands!!
Divided into six groups, our class is going to prepare for a small English context. It would be like the miniature of the Grand English Drama.
Our group decided to move the Holly Wood movie MIB on the stage. We adapted some of the details to saving characters from the fairytales that doesn’t know one another are fierce aliens.. For instance, we have to save Princess Snow White, for she doesn’t know her dwarfs are from Mars and shall eat her after the afternoon tea. I acted as the senior agent K, Eric as agent J. we really enjoyed making cool poses with guns in our hands!!
The other five groups were all so amazing. There was a story telling how a home-guy (or so called “otaku”) pursues his loved one and wins her heart by being just who he is. There was a story of four sisters’ journey of saving the prince, but found the prince loves a man in the end. There was a story talking about the awareness of a lazy student…… (sorry I couldn’t name them all, if you have a strong urge to promote your drama, please leave some words below, thanks) They are all extremely creative! And I found our cells of acting unexpectedly active!! Hahaha! The one I like most is the play called The Lord of the Ring(?). It was the story of a telephone information woman. She helped many people deal with their difficulties in life through tender and comforting words but lives a hard life herself. In the end she died of the serious disease, but brought together the people who she helped—four connected people. They saw the true heart within each other at her funeral. Ohhhh, I almost cried when I saw the last scene where they met each other surprisingly in the funeral! I believe many other classmates did shed a tear on the spot.
Our MIB won the prize of special effect and costume. The prize was an envelope, an envelope with …guess what’s inside?...A piece of paper written “Special Effect and Costume Prize”—or something like that—only. We were kinda disappointed at first, but felt better when we know every group had gotten the same thing. Alright, the whole competition thing was just for fun, obviously; and we did have fun!
So, it’s fun!!!!!!!!!+w+
(Proffessor! Don’t go! I really love singing…and dancing, too…oh, and acting….)
It was for the gathering of money at first because Sun Yat-san Hall was too expensive to rent for small school bands. But the more we played together, the more interesting we found! First, the instruments in the Chinese Orchestra are AMAZING! Despite of their special sounds, their appearances are awesome as well—the Shen(笙), for example, really looks like the combination of the barrels; and it sounds like an electronic piano to me! 
I heard an anecdote of Shen on the internet once: a Shen player was going home. On his way, he met the police officer checking the driver’s licenses of the passers-by. Noticing the mysterious box on the back seat, the police officer demand that he open the box. However, after he opened it, the policeman became cautious and asked him if it was some kind of transformed guns or other unknown arm. After the long argue, the poor driver could do nothing but play his Shen on the middle of the road in order to prove his innocent. It’s very hilarious, but I can understand why the officer did it when I saw the marvelous instrument myself!
The last two songs, we two bands played together to show that western music and Chinese music can merge into one. The song “One Night in Beijing” was fabulous! I haven’t gotten the video yet, but as soon as I have it I will post it on my blog. (pic: I'm the first one from the left!)
This special performance made me understand Chinese orchestra better and allowed me to admire their music more closely. There are really a great difference between Chinese music and western music. Western wind band sounds strong, powerful and emotional; while the Chinese orchestra sounds more delicate and gentle, almost like human voices. My friend in the Chinese orchestra told me that he loved the momentum of the wind band and I told him my ideas toward his. We were both glad to hear that someone admire us in a totally different perspective! What an experience! 
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Snow White is friendly and always kind to one another, though it leads to her death before the prince came to save her—she should never take things from strangers, especially an evil-looking one. She lacks the power of judgment. Even the prince she fell in love with is the love-at-first-sight. 
