LIU WEI LI        S3-09       08/08/12

National Day celebration

             Today is Wednesday and it is our school’s national day celebration. This is the first time I celebrated another country’s national day. Before I went to school this morning, I thought the celebration would just be some performances by the students and then I can go home. However, it was actually different, it was actually much funner than I thought it would be. 

              A lot of parents came to school to help out the national day celebration. We could go to different places to play different games. The first game I played was called Five stones. There were five stages for this game and you could get nine stamps if you completed all the nine stages. The first few stages was actually very simple and I finished them very soon. Then, when it came to stage six, it became a lot harder. There were more steps and the each step were much harder. Of course the last stage was the hardest, the time I used to complete the ninth stage was actually the same as the time I used to complete first eighth stage. 

              In the first stage of the game, I had to throw all the five stones onto the ground. Then I picked up one in my hand and threw it onto the air. While the stone was still on the air, I had to pick up one on the ground and caught the one I just threw. I need to repeat the step until all the five stones are in my hand. Stage two is almost the same as stage one. I threw one onto the air and this time, I caught two on the ground instead of one. The third stage was catching three stones at one time. Hence, the first four stage was actually quite similar. The fifth stage was now a lot different and a lot harder but now I could not remember clearly. But I remembered somewhere in the middle, I had picked up two in my hand first. Then, I threw one of the two stones in my hand to the air and then put the other one in my hand on the ground. Then, I had to pick up another stone and catch the one that is falling from the air. The last stage was putting all five stones together on your hand. Then, you need to turn your hand over and using the back of your hand to catch at least four stones. Then, you had to do the same thing again. But this time you only had to catch at least three stones. 

               I also played some other games which I could not remember the name, but I think this one was the most interesting one. Our national day celebration in China was never this fun.