Chinese New Year: Get Rich Booth

We all Chinese people celebrated Chinese New Year every year. In many countries, Chinese New Year is considered a major holiday for the Chinese and has had influence on the lunar New Year celebrations of its geographic neighbors. While us in Indonesia specifically in Jakarta we celebrated on February 5^th 2016 in Bina Tunas Bangsa School. We will never forget the tradition of a lion dance.

 

 

Three days before our Chinese New Year celebration in school, we prepare the game booth to be played on February 5^th 2016. We divided our tasks. Some were painting the Styrofoam, filling bottles with water and preparing the counter booth to claim their gifts. The purpose of this booth is for charity donations, the idea of raising funds.

Booth to claim the gifts

Making the Styrofoam card stand

Decorating the booth

 

We have 5 different games which are: dart, throwing cards, bowling, throwing balls to the basket and blow the bubble. For those who play will pay 5 thousand rupiah for each game. They were not only students who play but also teachers. They are donating to the charity by playing and paying for the games.

Dart

Bowling

 

Throwing cards

Throwing balls to the bucket

Blow the bubbles

So far, we earned 1.2 million rupiah in 2 and a half hour. We all enjoyed what we are playing as well as we the grade 11 students were happy serving them and it was a pleasure. The students and even the teachers are showing enthusiasms.

 

The main objectives that we would like to achieve are:

 (1)  To serve the students patiently, and manage to get a good impressions.

 (2)  To develop efficient work methods.          

 (3)  To help in putting efforts towards productivity improvement.

 (4)  To help in learning how to eliminate of the wasteful efforts and useless material handling.          

 (5)  Improving the interactions with customers (clear communication skills)

 

Learning outcomes: 

• Increased awareness of our own strengths and areas for growth 
• Undertaken new challenges 
• Planned and initiated activities 
• Worked collaboratively with others 
• Shown perseverance and commitment in the activities 
• Developed new skills

 

The activity was a successful because it went according to our plan. We never thought that the game booth will run so successfully. Aside from operating the game booth, the students from every class were involved in performing something that is related to Chinese New Year. Five from our class members performs a modern Chinese dance and I am one of them. It was a fun and memorable activity. Afterwards we celebrated our Chinese New Year by having a class party and along with some games. 

Performing a dance

 

Class party

 

This activity make me so exhausted yet it was very fun and interesting to do whereas this activity has taught me a lot of things such as interacting with student in the lower grade and serving them in order to make this activity a successful one. I hope that we can do this activity again in the future.