Day 6: International Dance-Off

Day 6 came and the teams finished the third project. Another university came, and they presented the project to them and completed the workshop. At the end of the day, the students were tired, but we still managed to have some fun and play cards in the sun after the university workshop. The evening activity was another party, creatively dubbed “International Dance Night”, which allowed each of us to select 20 minutes of music from our countries to play for the students. Ekta started with Indian music and it was awesome. She wore a traditional sari and did a number of dances, including the Punjabi dance which I’ve become quite skilled at! (haha—but really). Ana did the samba, Lessya tried to do the Kazakh dances, and Zhou Lin did a traditional Chinese dance to some Chinese music videos. It was really great and interactive. Harrison had some Taiwanese rap/hip-hop and Aysegul had music videos of belly dancing, which is traditional to Turkey. Although she didn’t demonstrate, it was great. Everyone was really excited to see me dance to hip-hop, but I guess I disappointed when I couldn’t dance hip-hop, but Yuri can do a drum’n’bass step and Denisa can do a pretty good hip-hop step. It was a really good night.
We finished early (around 11:30 PM) in an attempt to get the students to go to bed. We really wanted to do a special “middle of the night activity” called House of Feelings, but all the plans fell through when we fell asleep and at 2 AM we woke up to freezing weather and none of us wanted to leave our beds. So much for House of Feelings…