Sports Day

Last week we had what they call "Sports Day"...even though it actually lasts two days. From what I've heard, each college in China has something similar to it each year. It has the potential to be a really cool event, but I think they ruin it by forcing the freshmen to sit in the hot sun, in dress clothes about 8 hours two days straight (though they didn't have to dress up the 2nd day) watching running races most of them don't want to watch. If it's supposed to be fun, you can't make people watch it! That kind of takes the fun out of it! There are other events besides running, like swimming and some strange games they made up, but the freshmen aren't allowed to go watch them. It frustrates me, but I still am glad that I had the chance to spend some time with them during it. The flag that you see in the pictures is the Business School flag that we were waving in order to cheer the runners on.