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Students at the Beijing School for Ethnic Minorities at a morning assembly

Morning exercises

Morning tea with the principal of the school, with Oxley High’s John Green on the right

Catering students posing for a photograph

A path off the main quadrangle at the school

Students learning Japanese

Some Oxley High students playing basketball with some local students

Some students showing off their lion immitations (that’s not smoke, it’s steam from the tea :-)

Their acrobatic skills were impressive, too.

Some female students performing a traditional dance

Another view of the same dance

A traditional umbrella-twirling dance

These girls were very good at this particular dance

A song to locally-provided music

A peacock dance performed to some graceful, Chinese, music

They were twirling quite fast at one stage

Close-up of the girls’ head-dresses

Students and representatives from Oxley High and the Beijing School for Ethnic Minorities together

The same group, but with all the rest (except myself and those taking the photos)

Statue outside the Worker’s Stadium Number 2

An Aussie restaurant between the Worker’s Stadium and the Silk Monopoly Store

Workers spinning silk at the Silk Monopoly Store

Chinese worker weaving something out of silk

Garden at night at Prince Gong’s palace, where the Peking Opera was performed

Performers getting ready before the show

View of the stage and the seats and tables before the crowd arrived

View of the tables and the more private seating at the back

Ren Tanghui, sent to protect Jiaozan, a senior officer of the Song Dynasty, from the opera “The Crossroad”

The English translations were as entertaining as the performance at times

The inn-keeper seeking out Ren Tanghui, Jiaozan’s protector, in the dark

Another amusing translation

Ren Tanghui still “searching about it” in the dark

Ren and the inn-keeper, Liu Lihua, still looking for each other

Ren and Liu still looking for each other in the dark

The only good photo I got of a very funny opera that wasn’t mentioned in the programme

…it was funny because the “boat” was rocking and the characters kept bobbing up and down

This opera, “Havoc in Heaven”, had some good fight scenes (this was the only good photo I got)