Chinese New Year at Radford University

To complete our two week unit on China (which perfectly coincided with the actual Chinese New Year), we took a field trip to Radford University to watch and participate in the New Year festivities.
The Blacksburg Chinese School performed the New Year song. They were so cute.This was a swan dance put on by the Chinese school dancers.
This musical performance was really good. I believe the instrument is called an Erhu.

During intermission, the hosts invited members of the audience to come up and play a game of Ninja. Jared readily volunteered even though he had no idea how the game was played. He did great and almost won, he came in second.Another beautiful dance from the dance group.

A fashion show; all of the women are wearing different verisons of the traditional Chinese cheongsam or qipao dress.
The finale of the show was the lion dance which started out with traditional music and then switched to a more upbeat modern dance, which everyone thought was great.

After the show, the kids participated in several different activities, like Chinese character painting.Trying to tie a Chinese love knot.

A chopsticks contest. Amber won this contest against several college students.
And finally, a bingo game. There were prizes at each table, but the best part? The spring rolls, YUM!

The last day of Chinese New Year is the Lantern Festival, which in China means more fireworks. We had fun watching Lantern Festival fireworks live in China outside of Chris' hotel via Skype on the computer.