Despite the overwhelming heat that slightly troubled us, we all enjoyed the last day at JB Petit. We had the last enjoyable lessons of Social Science and double Maths learning about Beethoven and revolutions of circles respectively. Afterwards, we headed off to the Jain Temple. It was very beautiful, with painted ceilings that displayed the different types of life Indians had along with the white-washed walls and sturdy pillars. It was the statues of the gods and the shimmering chandeliers that lit up every single hall where people would kneel down to the gods and mumble their own prayers. One interesting thing to note was the holy symbol that was seen everywhere. It was carved on doors, floor mats and ceilings. It actually looked quite similar to the yin yang symbol in Chinese!
As we went back to school, we were quickly rushed off to the Indian dance workshop. We learnt the basic steps of Indian traditional Bollywood dance, with zigzags, turning, and swinging your hips. Although we were terribly troubled by the heat, we soon forgotten about the perspiration streaming down our foreheads as we were totally fascinated about the dance. The dance instructor demonstrated several pieces of dance that required a lot of movement from the whole body and we all followed really well. She also taught us how to do the Namaste (means Hi in India) movement through walking forward for four steps, clasping our hands together, and moving backwards. These movements were very fun and towards the end, all the DGS girls swayed their hips while dancing to the Oppa Bollywood Style!
After the dance class, we bade farewell to our dear JB classmates who had spent such a wonderful week in the classroom with us. They taught us so many Indian traditions and I had so much fun with them. They hugged us goodbye outside the artroom and we went to do our henna tattoo. (mehndi in Indian language) Our hands were beautifully painted by two professionals using a cream-like squeezer. They told me that my name Dana was somehow hidden in my unique henna tattoo at the back of both hands!
This week at JB Petit flew by quickly and I'm really glad I had learnt so much. I'll miss the girls so much and all the delicious Indian snacks they had offered me. Thank you JB. -all our love from DGS Hong Kong girls. Can't wait to see you again!
- Dana Tsoi
As we went back to school, we were quickly rushed off to the Indian dance workshop. We learnt the basic steps of Indian traditional Bollywood dance, with zigzags, turning, and swinging your hips. Although we were terribly troubled by the heat, we soon forgotten about the perspiration streaming down our foreheads as we were totally fascinated about the dance. The dance instructor demonstrated several pieces of dance that required a lot of movement from the whole body and we all followed really well. She also taught us how to do the Namaste (means Hi in India) movement through walking forward for four steps, clasping our hands together, and moving backwards. These movements were very fun and towards the end, all the DGS girls swayed their hips while dancing to the Oppa Bollywood Style!
After the dance class, we bade farewell to our dear JB classmates who had spent such a wonderful week in the classroom with us. They taught us so many Indian traditions and I had so much fun with them. They hugged us goodbye outside the artroom and we went to do our henna tattoo. (mehndi in Indian language) Our hands were beautifully painted by two professionals using a cream-like squeezer. They told me that my name Dana was somehow hidden in my unique henna tattoo at the back of both hands!
This week at JB Petit flew by quickly and I'm really glad I had learnt so much. I'll miss the girls so much and all the delicious Indian snacks they had offered me. Thank you JB. -all our love from DGS Hong Kong girls. Can't wait to see you again!
- Dana Tsoi
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