Harmonious Discord
We are gearing up for our tremendous welcome ceremony. Last night we practiced for three hours (and the director wanted another three, but there was general mutiny). There are girls doing hip hop dance, people dancing in giant inflated olympic mascot suits, a weird foreigner singing a goofy song, and a band. Oh, what a band.

The band is composed as follows: flutes, bamboo flutes, violins, two stringed Chinese things, clarinets, trumpets. a pipa, a guzheng, a circle of organ pipes, Chinese cymbols and a coup de grace: An accordion (with a microphone to amplify it).

The result is an accordion and cymbol heavy symphony with a good deal of plucking, strumming, and organ pipe banging. The girl with the accordion just looks rediculous (and she looks like she knows it, too). I will retrieve photographic evidence if at all possible.