June 15th & 16th: TNU College of the Arts

On Monday, we visited Tiajin Normal University's College of the Arts. In the morning, we broke into small groups and learned about different Chinese arts, including trying our hand at traditional Chinese instruments and traditional Chinese dances.




After lunch, we started rehearsal.



The college had prepared many performances for us, and asked us to prepare some performances for them. Our team decided to sing Seasons of Love from Rent, and to dance the Cha Cha slide.




It was a great success! Everyone was very impressed, and one of the administrators from TNU even asked if we could teach the Cha Cha Slide to the teachers next week!

We were blown away by the TNU students performances. They did everything! Eighteen performances included classical music, traditional and folk dancing, Chinese and western Opera, and much more!






We had a great time!



Afterwards, we celebrated at a classic Korean restaurant, where we ate from sizzling iron woks, while sitting on the floor at very low tables.



On Tuesday, we were invited back to the College of art for one of their graduation concerts on Western Opera.





In the coming days, we will be visiting the TNU College of Primary Education..