Today, several students had prepared a presentation for the 8th graders of The Post Oak Middle School introducing the high school Chinese language class, Chinese J-Term and China A-Term. The presentation included information about the history of the Chinese language, our personal experiences with learning Chinese, the cultural learning opportunities that are offered even if you don't take the language class and writing and pronunciation tips for learning Mandarin Chinese. We applied their knowledge to an exercise by giving them worksheets so they would have a taste of our homework. Not a lot of students had experience with or even much exposure to the Chinese language. The presentation was aimed towards informing students of the choices they have and how learning Chinese isn't as complicated and difficult as they might think it is. Then we wrapped up our individual research presentations on Suzhou, Beijing, Houston's Chinatown and international Chinatowns.
We headed out for lunch at The Golden Dim Sum restaurant in the local Chinatown. They served authentic Cantonese style dishes including crystal shrimp dumplings, chrysanthemum flower tea, stir-fried flat noodles, warm custard filled sweet buns and “Phoenix Claws.” We learned tea drinking etiquette from Mr. Zhou and tried not to over order.
After lunch, we split into two teams to compete in a scavenger hunt across Chinatown. We searched for Chinese New Year decorations, bubble tea houses, the little man with a chef hat on the logo of an instant noodle brand, and did some shopping in between. Several tasks required interactions with the people in the area, one of which included finding three people from different provinces in China. We had a lot of embarrassing experiences with our encounters and startled a lot of unsuspecting shoppers and pedestrians because they weren't able to speak Chinese or very much English. I didn't expect that it would be so difficult to find someone from China in Chinatown. The mixed demographics really reflected the diverse community of Houston.
By Frederika
We headed out for lunch at The Golden Dim Sum restaurant in the local Chinatown. They served authentic Cantonese style dishes including crystal shrimp dumplings, chrysanthemum flower tea, stir-fried flat noodles, warm custard filled sweet buns and “Phoenix Claws.” We learned tea drinking etiquette from Mr. Zhou and tried not to over order.
After lunch, we split into two teams to compete in a scavenger hunt across Chinatown. We searched for Chinese New Year decorations, bubble tea houses, the little man with a chef hat on the logo of an instant noodle brand, and did some shopping in between. Several tasks required interactions with the people in the area, one of which included finding three people from different provinces in China. We had a lot of embarrassing experiences with our encounters and startled a lot of unsuspecting shoppers and pedestrians because they weren't able to speak Chinese or very much English. I didn't expect that it would be so difficult to find someone from China in Chinatown. The mixed demographics really reflected the diverse community of Houston.
Kilali, Sara, Cidette, and Gabe give a presentation on the
Chinese language classes, J-Term, and A-Term
We ate all of the other dishes before they could be photographed.
An antique shop in Chinatown.
Instant noodle brands with chefs in their logo.
Cidette's face mask waifus.
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