It was the grand finale! International Day – the last day of Culture Week – was celebrated with a great show. Dances, acrobatic and athletic acts, songs – the festival of cultures in all its diversity. We had dancers from India, Kirgistan, America, China, of course, and other places of the world. Even the little kids of the foreign faculty performed a little dance and won the heart of the audience in an instance. I loved the skater’s act – which well represents the diversity of our school. The fire acrobat’s performance was quite a hot act, and maybe the most impressive part was the performance of what I’d call the “vase dancer.” Someone was balancing heavy china vases all over his body and we were catching our breaths, always fearing the vases might drop and shatter into thousands of pieces. But he finished his performance without any accident, leaving us quite stunned at his ability. Of course, being in China, Kong Fu has to be part of every good show, so we got to …

Today we celebrated Africa and Latin America Day. We were glad to see that the hut that was built last year still exists, and again it serves multiple purposes. For the students it’s a popular prop for picture taking. Costumes and masks were offered to put on for the photo shoot, and few students passed the chance for another great picture opportunity! I had fun watching the soccer competition. After all, Africa and Latin America are pretty big on soccer. So, the students had to navigate the ball across an obstacle field and then hit a target! Many balls, though, missed the target by far and probably quite some people faced a big surprise when suddenly a ball came out of nowhere! Well, again, Culture Week never has anyone bored!

Today is the second day of Culture Week. And it’s Asia Day. Every year, Culture Week takes place during the first weeks of November and it’s one of the biggest events of the school in the year. For a whole week we get to celebrate the cultural diversity of our planet and the foreign faculty organizes lots of events to make each Culture Week special.