Celebrating Chinese New Year! 02/21/2010
Chinese New Year is known for red packets, lion dance, fire crackers and most importantly, family reunion. But above all else, it's the time spent with families that makes it a special occasion.
In conjunction with the Chinese New Year season, GSN had their very own sort of reunion with the many people they have had the chance to be in contact with through sports. The reunion, or party as they would call it, was purposed to gather together people from all sports background for a time of getting to know each other, have fun and of course, to celebrate the festive season together as a family. The turned out was good but the whole event was even better.
The group of people that attended was mainly students from different schools. A big part of them came from GSN's connection with them through floorball. Being a young and energetic bunch, they were just great to hang out with. The lined up of programmes included a variety of pot bless food, watching the a video of the World Floorball Championship 2008 and a string of wild and crazy games. We even gave out 'ang pows' to them! What exactly was in it? Well, read on and you will find out! It was great to have this young group of people who were very sporting, friendly and crazy enough to have a good time together.
In conjunction with the Chinese New Year season, GSN had their very own sort of reunion with the many people they have had the chance to be in contact with through sports. The reunion, or party as they would call it, was purposed to gather together people from all sports background for a time of getting to know each other, have fun and of course, to celebrate the festive season together as a family. The turned out was good but the whole event was even better.
The group of people that attended was mainly students from different schools. A big part of them came from GSN's connection with them through floorball. Being a young and energetic bunch, they were just great to hang out with. The lined up of programmes included a variety of pot bless food, watching the a video of the World Floorball Championship 2008 and a string of wild and crazy games. We even gave out 'ang pows' to them! What exactly was in it? Well, read on and you will find out! It was great to have this young group of people who were very sporting, friendly and crazy enough to have a good time together.
Energetic group of youth!
GSN seeks to build champions. Therefore, we see the importance for us to take time to get to know the people that we are in contact with. We had the chance to have little conversations with different individuals through this gathering and it is through such sharing and bonding that we seek to develop their character and virtues in life.
Watching a floorball video.
Preparing themselves for the wild and crazy games!
Game time was pure fun! Penny did a good job preparing crazy games for the young bunch to just hang loose. From finger wrestling, to leg wrestling, to eat-as-many-mandarin oranges-as-you-can-in-1 minute, to displaying their 'stage comedian' skills, to charades - everyone had the chance to just be their crazy self and had a good laugh at the same time!
Penny doing a great job with the games!
This is how you do the leg wrestle!
And they all showed their leg power!
Ruben versus Daniel!
The three stooges trying to crack some jokes!
As much as we all had fun, we wanted to leave something that was of value to this group of people before they went back home. GSN had a 'lucky draw' with a little twist. Instead of using numbers for the draw, we had inspirational and motivational sports quotes read out as the draw. Remember the 'ang pows'? Well, inside each ang pow that we gave out, we inserted a sports quote! Each sports quote speaks of different key principals and core characters that we felt was important for us to impart on this young group of sports enthusiasts. Such values and principals once caught, can rapidly boost their potential to greater heights and that is exactly what GSN wants to do, to empower people to embrace their potential - to build champions!
Hafiz receiving his lucky draw!
At the end of the night, we can truly said that we all had a great time. We truly are thankful for the opportunity that we have to be part of the lives of this young group of people, people with great potential. Although Chinese New Year is already coming to an end, we hope and pray that our meeting with this people will not be just a one-a-year affair, but one that will continue to develop.
