Beijing 北京 (5)
My term is finally over and the holidays began last week. Slowly most of the students begin to leave for their home country and the student dormitory starts to get quieter (but the summer students should arrive soon so it will not be quiet for a long time). The semester has been absolutely fantastic and I could meet a lot of very nice and interesting people and learn some Chinese.
Last time I wrote that I wanted to write a little bit more about Minzu Daxue, so I will do that today:
There is nearly always something going on at Minzu Daxue, the first thing that struck you is the amount of sport events that take place, during one period there were sports meetings every weekend. There are the more “serious” sports everyone would except at such meetings mostly athletics (running, disc throwing, jumping and so on) but then there are also some fun sports like 2 people have their legs attached together and they have to run the 100 meters together, or 3 people on skies running the 100 meters. But the game that fascinates me the most is one game you play in teams of 2. There is one person standing in a circle with a basket attached on the back and there is another person around 20-30 meters away with a ball attached on a cord. Now the person with the ball starts swinging the ball on the cord and then throws into the direction of the circle. The goal of the game is to get as many balls in the basket from person 2 (you are one team so the one in the circle has to try and catch it. For the catcher it can be rather hurtful as I have seen it that they get the ball on the head or other body parts. But I have to say that I definitely want to try it out and participate in this discipline next semester!
On the weekend students from our University often play against students from other university’s (Usually basketball or football). At least I know that the Tibetans have got some teams that play against Tibetans from other University’s and if I’m not wrong the Chinese Kazaks do too.
The pictures I put up this time are from the one game where you have to throw the ball into the basket and from a basketball tournament where different Tibetan teams played against each other (if I remember right)
