This TV show is a big deal. Huge deal. More than 1.17 billion people watch it every year. It is kind of like the Times Square broadcast in New York on New Year's Eve, only much, much bigger. Guinness Book of World Records Big. (The biggest TV event in the USA is the Super Bowl, and only 114 million people watch that.)
It's a variety show with singing, dancing, acrobatics, comedy sketches, etc. We just wished there were subtitles. I liked the dancing best, because you don't need to speak Chinese to understand that.
The other great thing about it, is that at midnight in China, it is 11:00 AM here, so we didn't even have to stay up late. All of my students in China were staying up until midnight, so we spent some time video chatting with them while we were all watching the same TV program. It was awesome.
While we watched, we did a little pagoda faux painting project that piqued my interest when I saw it online:
Connor didn't really like the watercolor effect, so he didn't bother.
To be honest, it didn't really look as great as it did on the internet.
Lex's pagoda
Finally, we drew a mouse for 2020, which is the Year of the Rat. But mice are way cuter.
Happy New Year!
福
新年快乐!
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