Chinese Bridge for high school students

By: Mark Havemann

Confucius Classroom students recently took 3^rd place at the 4^th annual Chinese Bridge language proficiency competition for high school students.

On 23 July six students from DSG and Kingswood College competed in the 4^th annual Chinese Bridge competition for high school students. This year the competition was hosted by the Cape Academy of Mathematics, Science and Technology (CAMST) in Cape Town. The students have been studying Chinese with Ma Xiujie and Wang Yan of the Confucius Institute at Rhodes University as part of the Confucius Institute’s Confucius classroom program. This was their first time participating in this event and they all put in a lot of hard work while preparing for the competition. They impressed the judges with their knowledge of Chinese language and culture by presenting a speech and a Chinese cultural performance. The students sang Chinese songs, performed Chinese traditional dance, recited famous Chinese poems and painted tradition Chinese paintings. The judges enjoyed all the performances and one of the Kingswood College students took 3^rd place in the competition.