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Outward
Journey
Flight Beijing
à
Xining CA
1207
7:40 am
Day in Xining
Hotel: Musilin Hotel
Phone: (0971)
711-
0885
Sightseeing (Sun and
Moon Mountain, Daotang River, Qinghai Lake)
Evening Meal
Meet with Chinese
Women’s Guild members
Day 3 – Friday July 5th
Journey to and morning in Hai Bei
Hotel: Hai Bei Hotel
Phone:
(0970) 864 4010
Sightseeing (China
Atomic Plaza, Gold and Silver Grassland)
Spring Blossom Day 1 – Introductions and Games
Aimed to get the two groups to know each other and build friendships.
1:00 pm – Welcoming Ceremony:
Modern Indian Dance:
KGV
will perform a modern Indian Dance to the Spring Blossom School.
Choreographed by Dinisha Daswani; danced by everyone.
Acapella
Singing:
Four
students will perform a vocal musical item (Coca-Cola theme song)
in the form of acapella (music without instruments).
Coordinated by Carolyn Woo; sung by Carolyn Woo, Emily Yeung, Janet
Lee and Jonathan Wang.
3:00 pm – Ice
Breaking Games:
All students
will be split into two groups. Games will be explained in Mandarin.
All game will last around 15 minutes. Games
played will be the following:
1.
Fruit Bowl
Each
group will sit in a large circle on chairs. Each person is assigned
one of four fruit names. A fruit name will be called and all the
people assigned that fruit must stand up and change seats. If fruit
bowl is called, everyone must change seats. At the end of each round,
a chair or two will be removed. Those who are without a seat after a
fruit has been called are out.
2.
Sister, I love you!
Everyone stands in a
circle as one person in the middle approaches
another saying “Sister,
Sister I Love You”, trying to make the other person laugh. The chosen
person must respond by saying, “I love you
too, but I just
can’t smile”. If the person laughs, then he or she is out.
If he or she
succeeds in not laughing, then they are in the middle and
the game proceeds.
3.
Guess the Leader
One
person is taken out of the circle and out of sight from the rest of
the group. A leader is chosen from
the circle and he or she starts to do an action (e.g. clapping).
Everyone must follow the leader, as the isolated person is brought
back in. As the leader constantly changed
actions, the isolated member must try and observe who is the leader.
4.
Chinese Whispers
Everyone
sits in a line, or circle. The leader of the group chooses a
phrase (anything at all) and whispers it in the
first person’s ear. He or she then whispers
it into the next person’s ear etc. At the end of the
line, the last person must guess what the original
message was.
5.
Chocolate Game
Everyone sits in a
circle, with the exception of Kay and Nicola who are
in the middle. We go around the circle as everyone
introduced him or herself and says something that they like (e.g. My
name is Nicola and I like to bike). Once they are done, the person in
the middle must choose someone, say their
name and say what they like. If they are correct,
they change places and the game continues.
However, if they are wrong, the must try
again with someone else. You cannot choose
someone who has just chosen you or sits next to you.
Coordinated and led by
Kay Lai and Nicola Chan.
3:30
pm – Name Tags:
Customised neck tags have
been ordered that say Spring Blossom 2002 (back,
with white text).
Each person will receive one, along with a specially designed
card, where they
will write their names on them.
Coordinated and led by Cadence Lam.
4:00 pm –
Tree Planting ceremony:
Two trees (representing
each group) will be planted in a formal ceremony. The
planting of the
tree will symbolise the beginning of our journey. Five students
from KGV will help
plant this tree, while Spring Blossom will have their own
representatives.
Coordinated by Zoe Demery.
Day 4 – Saturday
July 6th
Spring Blossom Day 2
– Team
Competitions
Aimed to further build
relationship, through a day of teamwork and competition.
9:00 am – Tae
Bo:
Tae Bo is a form of kick
boxing exercise. It involves a series of
kicking
movements and
punching movements. This will be the morning exercise
for the group.
Coordinated and led by Katie Leung and Fiona Hwang
9:30 am – Song
session:
A number of Mandarin and
English songs have been chosen and put into a song booklet that will
be given to each person. The girls will be allowed to vote for which
songs they want to learn. The English songs will be taught to them,
while the Chinese ones will just be sung.
Coordinated and led by Sumire
Sasaki and Fiona Hwang.
10:30 am – Split into
groups for team games:
Everyone
will be split into four groups, by means of random counting. Each
group will consist of around 20 people (15 Spring Blossom girls and 5
KGV Students). They will each be assigned a name, based on a
friendship
quality.
Coordinated and led by Jonathan Wang.
11:00 am – Flag
Painting:
Each
group will receive equipment to paint a banner/flag for their team.
This flag will
represent their team name
and will mark the beginning of the competition. The best-decorated
flag will receive points that will accumulate for the day.
Coordinated
and led by Emily Yeung and Katie
12:00
pm – Lunch
1:00
pm – Home Visit with Spring Blossom Girls:
KGV
will split into further groups and follow some of the girls’ home to
experience their living conditions and lifestyles.
Coordinated
and led by Spring Blossom and Mr. Boyce.
5:00
pm – Team Game competitions:
Within
the teams already assigned, the teams will compete in several
different challenges to try and accumulate points and win the
competition. The following games will be played:
Relay
Games (1 hour total)
1.
Egg and spoon race
Teams split into
two and arranged into 2 groups of four parallel lines (so each group of
10 is facing the other half of its team). Each team of 10 has 2 spoons.
The first person from one group of 10 runs to the other half of the
team, transfers the egg to the spoon of the first person in that line
(who then starts running), gives the spoon to someone else, and goes to
the back of the line.
2.
M&M game
Teams
arranged into four parallel lines. Each member of the team has a straw.
At the front of each line is a container of M&Ms. The first person in
the line uses the straw to pick up an M&M, runs to their teams bowl,
where they deposit the M&M, and run back to their line, where they join
the end.
3.
Three-legged Race
4.
Sack race
5.
Water balloon game
Teams
arranged into four parallel lines, with people in the line roughly arm’s
length apart. At the end of each line is a container. At the beginning
of the line is someone who gives the first person in the line a water
balloon, which gets thrown down the line, and into the bucket.
Additional balloons are given only when the preceding balloon has
reached the 10th person in the line.
Rotational
Games: (30 minutes total)
1.
Shepherd game
Someone in the team is a shepherd and is given a whistle. Everyone else
is scattered around a field and is blindfolded. The shepherd will try
to direct each person into a “pen” by using a whistle. The team must
think up of codes using the whistle. For example, two fast whistles
means “go right” and a long one means stop. The shepherd must get the
whole team into the pen as fast as possible. Points are awarded for the
fastest team, and the team with the most number of people in the pen
within five minutes.
2.
The Train game
Two teams will compete against
each other. Each member of the teams will have a handkerchief of their
team’s colour taped to their backs. The will all then form a train
holding their team members’ hips. The object of the game is to get the
one of the other team’s flag from the caboose of their train while
trying to avoid the other team. (Only the head of the train can catch
the other team’s flag). When a flag has been taken away from your team,
the caboose goes to the front of the train and is the one catching the
other team’s flag. Whoever has the most flags at the end wins.
Note:
Two teams play the Shepherd game while the other two
play against each other in the train game. They then swap over after
fifteen minutes.
3.
Tower building
Each group will be given a pack of
straws, tape and a ping-pong ball. They will be given 45 minutes to
construct and build a tower with a ramp to roll the ball down. The
objective is to create a structure that will roll the ball the
furthest. The last 15 minutes will be spent watching each structure at
work.
4.
Capture the Flag:
An area is split into four
section, each section is a teams’ base. At the beginning of the game,
each member of the team will stand at their base.
In each base there will be at all
times, two flags. When the game starts, the object of the game is to
collect as many of the oppositions’ flags as possible to gain points.
This is done by running into a team’s base, picking up a flag and
running back into their own base. If someone runs into a base to catch
a flag, and is tagged then they become a prisoner of that team and have
to stand in the “prison” in the middle of the middle of the base of the
team that caught them. Every time a flag is captured the team that lost
it, is given another one by the supervisors. At the end whoever has the
most flags wins.
Coordinated
and led by Aniruddha Nagendra, Jonny Tam and Joy Salvacruz.
Day 5 – Sunday July 7th
Spring Blossom Day 3 – Arts
and Crafts day
The aim is to do some
arts and crafts and prepare for the farewell party.
9:00 am – Aerobics:
The session will start off
with various stretches. Teaching basic steps of aerobics will follow
this. At the end, all the steps will be strung together in one long
pattern.
Coordinated
and led by Sumire Sasaki and Cadence Lam.
9:30 am – Origami
Cranes:
Tradition has it that if
you fold 1000 cranes, you will bring good health to yourself. We will
split the girls into the original four groups, where the leader will
teach them how to fold the cranes. Each girl will write a wish on the
crane and fold around 10 of them. All the cranes will be collected and
hung up from the ceiling.
Coordinated
by Emily Yeung and Katie Leung.
11:00 am – Song session:
This
is using the same songbook, as before, however, the main emphasis of
this singing session will be to teach the girls some campfire songs that
can be sung at the farewell barbeque.
Coordinated and led by
Sumire Sasaki and Fiona Hwang.
12:00 pm – Lunch
1:00 pm – Mass games
1.
Musical Chairs – 20 minutes
Spread chairs
around the room (circles or anything fun). Music starts and people walk
around the room. When the music stops people must find a seat. Five
chairs will be taken out every time. The people who do not have a seat
have to sit out and they would be learning English. The game continues
until there is only one person is left.
2.
North, South, East,
West Game (NSEW) – 20 minutes
Everything
starts in the middle. Each corner is located NSEW. Directions and
actions will be explained. Directions and/or actions will be shouted
out. The last ones will perform the action on the cue card.
3.
Shapes Game – 15 minutes
Group(s) stand
in a circle holding hands. Then make the shape called out without
letting go.
4.
Bench Game – 15 minutes
Group(s) stand
on bench(es). Then must arrange themselves in order of the categories
called out. They must speak in English. If they fall off the whole
bench has time penalty of 5 seconds.
5.
Ball Game: Flinch – 20 minutes
Everyone stands
in a circle and a few people in the middle. People who stand in the
middle throw balls to the people around them. If the person can’t catch
the ball she has to sit down. The throwers can fake the throw and if
the catcher then moves her arms she has to sit down. The game will be
played for 5-10 minutes and stop. The people sitting down will do the
actions on the cue card together and the game restarts.
6. Volleyball
– 20 to 30 minutes
Game played with four teams
and two matches will be played at a time. The competition is that
whichever match has the ball on the floor first loses.
Contingency Games:
7.
Fizz Buzz with Chinese numbers – 15 minutes
Multiples or numbers with 5 are buzzes
and number with 9 are fizzes. If there is a clash fizz-buzz is called.
Split them into groups and people who got it wrong sit out.
8.
Concentration – 15 minutes
Split them into groups.
Each person gets a number. Teach them the clapping rhythm. For first
snap she says her number and second snap says another person’s number.
Coordinated and led by
Benson Chung and Janet Lee.
3:00
pm – Dance Session:
The main dance taught in
this session will be line dancing and can be used in the farewell
party. If time permits, we will also learn the Macarena.
Coordinated and led by
Jonathan Wang.
5:00 pm – Bead
Bracelet Making:
Each student will receive
four coloured beads and a piece of string to make a bracelet. The
bracelet symbolises unifying the group and creating friendship, which
will be explained by the leader along with teaching how to make it using
a pre-made sample.
Coordinated and led by Emily
Yeung and Katie Leung.
6:00 pm – Barbeque
Farewell Party:
Organised by Spring Blossom
primarily, with a few games and songs that will be led by KGV students.
Coordinated by Spring Blossom
and Zoe Demery.
Day 6 – Monday 8th
July
Spring
Blossom Day 4 – Goodbyes and Farewells
The
day is aimed at saying goodbye and leaving a lasting impression.
9:00
am – Morning Jogging:
The
group will be led on a 15 minutes jog around the area as a morning
exercise.
Coordinated
by Mr. Ensor.
9:30 am –
Mural Painting:
With
the theme of the trip, Spreading Wings and Flying High, two murals (25
ft each) will be painted by the whole group, representing our 4-day
experience. This will be done outdoors (weather permitting).
Coordinated
and led by Emily Yeung and Katie Leung.
11:30 am – Sharing session:
Using
the mural as a backdrop, various people will take time to share with
them what the past four days has meant to them.
Coordinated
by Jonathan Wang and Spring Blossom.
12:00
pm – Luncheon:
As
a final goodbye party and banquet, Spring Blossom will be organising a
luncheon.
Coordinated
by Spring Blossom.
1:00
pm – Photo session, goodbyes and gift exchange:
An
informal way of saying goodbye, as students will get a chance to take
photographs. A Polaroid camera will be taken to take instant
photographs. Gifts will also be exchanged.
Coordinated
by Katie Leung and Candy Chung.
2:00
pm – Depart
Hai
Bei
à
Xining
Day 7 – Tuesday 9th
July
Day
in Xining
Hotel:
Musilin Hotel
Phone:
(0971) 711 0885
Sightseeing (Taer Temple, Folk Show, Folk-food)
Day 8 – Wednesday 10th
July
Inward Journey
Flight
Xining
à
Beijing
CA 1208
10:45 am
Flight Beijing
à
Hong Kong KA 909
3:40 pm
Arrive in Hong Kong Chep Lap Kok
Airport at 7:15 pm.
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