Around the world celebration at Te Wananga o Aotearoa...

 Yesterday, our campus had a celebration called "Around the world" which alludes to a Cook Islands dance usually left to the end when the dance troupe invites guests to the stage/floor to dance a final dance and which all is revealed i.e. if you can or can't dance the Cook Islands male/female dance. Always a laugh and a big hit at the end!

The difference this year was that each of our departments was given a country to represent, our department was for China and to have the following items:

• A canvas artistic piece of art that represented the country (my contribution featured in the pic on the left) i.e. vivid on boxed canvas
• A mascot of the country
• An item/dance of the country
• Each person dressed in the countries national clothing or national colour
• Food to share at a shared lunch with all the other groups

It was quite enjoyable viewing all the different countries and students/tutors coming in national dress such as: France, India, Sweden, Argentina etc. and our very own mascot and dragon dance for China won the mascot prize as in the pic above with our team wearing red.

It's really neat because we have two Chinese Nationals who actually immigrated from China who both work in the library with one at the head of our dragon and one at the tail. We were sure winners!