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RBR CELEBRATES YEAR OF THE ROOSTER

Left to right: Jersey Shore Chinese School Dancers Chloe Lee, Elena Chu, Kaitlyn Chien, Gloria Liu, Audrey Su and Sydney Sun perform a folk dance number during last week’s visit to Red Bank Regional.

Press release from Red Bank Regional High School

On January 27,  Chinese world language students at Red Bank Regional High School invited their entire school to celebrate the Year of the Rooster for the Chinese New Year.  The students demonstrated their language skills singing several songs in Chinese including, “Sorry my Chinese is Not Good” and “Congratulations.” They also introduced their very talented guests from the Jersey Shore Chinese School in Holmdel, who performed dazzling traditional folk dances and the popular Dragon and Lion dances in grandiose costumes.

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RBR STUDENTS RING IN YEAR OF THE HORSE

P1210179Red Bank Regional High School Principal Risa Clay tentatively pets the Lion who danced for the RBR students in celebration of the Chinese New Year. The Lion dance was performed by Jersey Shore Chinese School students Steven Yuan and Anthony Lu.

Press release from Red Bank Regional High School

On January 31, the Day of the Chinese New Year, Red Bank Regional High School was festooned with signature red paper decorations welcoming the multi-talented Jersey Shore Chinese School students to celebrate and educate RBR students on Chinese custom and lore.

The celebration of The Year of the Horse was part of a policy at RBR, where Chinese has been offered as a course for the past six years, to “immerse our students in the culture of the languages they study,” in the words of RBR World Language Supervisor Rob Donohoe.

The program was organized by the RBR World Language Chinese teacher Chinyun Wu, who is also a long-standing teacher at the Jersey Shore Chinese School. During the event, which was aptly emceed by RBR Chinese language students Kobe Miller and Kevin Zheng, an amazingly agile giant paper lion danced upon the auditorium stage with footwork mimicking a prancing beast.

Kevin, who was born in China and took the RBR Chinese class to learn Mandarin, since he speaks the dialect of his small village.  Kevin and his fellow students were incredibly impressed with the Chinese school’s performance and states, “They got the audience really involved and I think it will encourage more students to take Chinese next year.”

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RBR STUDENTS CELEBRATE CHINESE NEW YEAR

Red Bank Regional High School (RBR) has invited some special guests to help celebrate the Chinese New Year in dance, prose, music, and a special Dragon parade.

Beginning at 9 am this Friday, January 31, students from the Jersey Shore Chinese School will join RBR’s World Language Chinese students inside the school’s auditorium, in an event that was arranged by their common teacher, Chinyun Wu.

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