A Wonderful Lecture

  The lecture / performance of the first group on Chinese culture was brilliant.
     Two weeks ago,we visited New Haven Free Public Library and was very pleased to meet a nice lady---Xia Feng,one of the top managers in the library.Then through Carrie's contacting  with Xia, we got the good opportunity of  offering Chinese culture classes to adults as a voluntary activity in the library, which would be an invaluable experience for all of us.
     At first an attractive flyer needed to be created for the publicity. Carrie instructed our temporary design team, including Cherry, Rachel, Arnold and Junia, to make a beautiful flyer, with some suggestions from other colleagues and Xia Feng. They devote a lot of time and energy to it. Rest of us appreciated it.

      Then the first group members---Jason, Jennifer,Lauren and Joyce  began to be busy with the preparation for the lecture: they collected lots of materials, wrote out their lecture notes, did good ppt, and practiced many times. When they had a dress rehearsal  in class last Tuesday, honestly speaking, it seemed to be a half-baked. Because lack of enough preparation, they looked very nervous. Carrie and some colleagues provided them with some suggestions. And they started to improve it immediately. In order to make their lecture/performance excellent, they revised, polished and practiced until they were satisfied with themselves.
      Last Thursday evening is the time for their formal performance. Most of us arrived at the public library half an hour earlier. And Patrick, a staff member of the library in charge of this performance, has already well arranged the needed equipments. Lecture began. At first Jason made a opening remarks.Then Arnold traced the friendship between  USA and China back to the WWII. He presented a lot of information that audience were interested in, for responses from the audiences, such as "oh" "woo" "really"and "interesting", could be heard from time to time.  Lauren and Jennifer introduced China's only-child  policy with a style of talk show . Their language was humorous, which amused the audience occasionally. Jason shared his understanding of China's Aging society. His visual English expression and rich body language made the boring topic sound interesting. Joyce showed the audience the everyday life of the senior citizens in China with a lot of funny pictures, which made the audience believe China is the best place for retired people to live in. The most exciting part was that Lauren performed Taiji with Taiji Gongfu Fan, which brought the house down. And she even taught two audiences to learn some basic movements. It's awesome that they did a good job.  During the question time, Jason's answers satisfied the audiences. And some audiences even asked us the exact time of our next lecture.That is to say, the lecture of the first group was so successful that the audiences  are even looking forward to our subsequent lectures. That's cool!