{"id":822,"date":"2010-10-13T20:53:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-13T12:53:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=822"},"modified":"2010-10-13T21:11:26","modified_gmt":"2010-10-13T13:11:26","slug":"student-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/?p=822","title":{"rendered":"Student concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Student concert<\/p>\n<p>Last night one of my ex-students took me to a concert on campus in the big theatre. \u00a0One of my students invited me too but she left it to the last minute, common timing around here.\u00a0 It lasted for 2 hours.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been invited to another in about 5 weeks where one of my students is organising a troupe of dancers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-021.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-823\" title=\"concert 021\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-021-300x107.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"107\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-021-300x107.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-021-1024x366.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-021.jpg 1683w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>This is the lineup of calligraphers, flower arrangers, two of the hosts and audience participants.<\/p>\n<p>From what I can understand, the concert was put on to inform new students of extra-curricular activities available to them.\u00a0 \u00a0It had the usual four hosts in their rented finery.\u00a0 \u00a0Singers, dancers, kung fu proponents and a short skit were part of the usual offering for college concerts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-031.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-824\" title=\"concert 031\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-031-300x138.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-031-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-031.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The kung fu students<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-034.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-825\" title=\"concert 034\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-034-300x139.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"139\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-034-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-034-1024x475.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-034.jpg 1509w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The scene and actors in the skit.\u00a0 There was an audible ohhhhhhhhhhhhh from the audience when the lounge chairs were brought onto the stage before it started.<\/p>\n<p>The flower arrangers and calligraphers had an imaginative way of presenting themselves as had the photographers.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 In cultural contrast were the inline skaters as they spun and danced around tiny witches hats.\u00a0 In addition we saw a pretty good magic show which included the disappearing \/exchange of person trick although the&#8221;baddie&#8221; needs to get himself a more convincing cape.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 There was a catwalk display including wedding and after five gowns.\u00a0\u00a0 These are college courses; modelling and garment making, so I\u2019m not sure why they were there.\u00a0 \u00a0About 16 students sang as they signed.\u00a0 The only other evidence I\u2019ve seen of sign language was its appearance in a prerecorded aeroplane safety briefing where it was sandwiched between Chinese and English.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-039.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-826\" title=\"concert 039\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-039-300x182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-039-300x182.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-039.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The magic makers preparing to disappear someone. The yellow umbrella was left over from their first trick where a young man tried to woo his beloved with an endless supply of monochrome umbrellas.\u00a0 He didn&#8217;t hit the jackpot until he produced a multicoloured umbrella.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-032.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-827\" title=\"concert 032\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-032-300x128.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"128\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-032-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-032.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The singing signers<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-042.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-828\" title=\"concert 042\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-042-300x149.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"149\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-042-300x149.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-042-1024x510.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-042.jpg 1444w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of the students modelling elaborate garments.\u00a0 Again there were audible gasps when these and\u00a0similarly clad\u00a0students appeared.\u00a0\u00a0A student beside me, another one of my ex students, a happy joyous individual, just about bounced out of her chair\u00a0with excitement during this time.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-012.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-830\" title=\"concert 012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-012-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-012-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/concert-012.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was one girl among about a dozen boys in the skating program.\u00a0 It was obvious that they had personalised black T shirts and chosen to write &#8220;skater&#8221; in English rather than Chinese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Student concert Last night one of my ex-students took me to a concert on campus in the big theatre. \u00a0One of my students invited me too but she left it to the last minute, common timing around here.\u00a0 It lasted for 2 hours.\u00a0 I&#8217;ve been invited to another in about 5 weeks where one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[94],"tags":[9,22,15,25,27,16],"class_list":["post-822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-xingtai","tag-china","tag-college","tag-culture","tag-education","tag-fashion-parade","tag-xingtai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=822"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":831,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/822\/revisions\/831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kerry.net.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}