Chapter 47: School Celebration Party
At the school celebration in the morning, Feng Lu sat in the outdoor stadium, feeling a little dizzy after half a day of wind and sun. She wants to sing at night, will she catch a cold? She hurriedly sent a message to Secretary Ai, explaining in advance that her head was a little uncomfortable and that she was worried that her evening performance would not be completed. When Secretary Ai received this news, he was still accompanying the alumni to lunch. He took the time to go to the corridor and sent a message back to Feng Lu, telling her to have a good rest in the afternoon, and the evening performance must be performed on time and seriously, which is not only her personal but also the honor of the academy, and there can be no mistakes. Secretary Ai said that he completely believed in her and believed that she would be able to complete the performance very well at night. He also said that he and the two deans of the college had to invite a few alumni to have dinner outside the hotel in the evening, and it was a pity that they could not enjoy her wonderful dancing and singing!
Feng Lu was already in a trance, and after receiving Secretary Ai's reply, she knew that she had to finish the performance even if she worked hard at night. After a few bites of lunch, she had to lie down in bed, put aside her worries, and finally slowly fell into a dream. Fortunately, there was usually no one in the dormitory in the afternoon, and she slept for more than 3 hours in the quiet afternoon. After making up for this big sleep in the afternoon, Feng Lu felt as if her spirit had fully recovered and she could perform on the stage.
In the evening, the campus building is brightly lit. The energy-saving lamps on the side of the road outside the building emit a hazy glow, covering the beautiful campus with a thin veil. The stadium in the distance, after nearly an afternoon of silence, was again noisy in the brilliant lights.
People walked towards the stadium in groups of three or five. The girls were dressed up in colorful colors, many of them also wore evening dresses, and the boys were also dignified, some dressed in suits, ties, and leather shoes, and ran to the party venue. The original tables and chairs of the stadium rostrum were all removed to the large corridor in the basement under the rostrum. The school's trade union has a temporary office in the basement, and all the costumes of the performers of the party are rented by the school trade union from the stage costume company outside the school, and placed in this office, which is temporarily managed by the union staff and student volunteers. Performers come here with their badges to borrow their costumes and must return them on time after the performance. In addition, there are temporary locker rooms and lounges for the actors and actresses in the basement, and student volunteers are available at the entrance of each room to provide services to the actors.
The stadium was as bright as day under the illumination of the lights. The neon lights on the outside of the stage are full of colors, like seven-colored ribbons, and the stage is as bright as a pearl. Employees of the provincial television station and school volunteers have set up the rostrum into a beautiful stage for the school celebration party in advance, and several stage managers are putting the finishing touches on the background wall and lights. The stage is covered with a thin layer of light-colored foam flooring, the front and left and right sides are lined with colorful flower bonsai, and there is a bubble machine on the left and right sides of the stage, and a long red carpet is spread on the steps leading to the center of the stage.
Before the party began, the center of the stadium was already brightly lit, and the crowd formed a sea of joy. The stage was also crowded with people, and it was surrounded by water. The first few rows of the audience under the stage are the guest areas, reserved for alumni and school leaders and faculty representatives. Behind the guest area is an audience area divided into different colleges, and each area is filled with students, some waving glow sticks, some holding luminous bracelets, and some shaking luminous clappers.
Suddenly, the headlights in the center of the stadium went out, leaving only the colored lights on the stage. Accompanied by the beautiful opening music, the host slowly appeared on the stage and announced the official start of the party. The first program was a singing and dancing chorus "Today is your birthday, my motherland". When this heart-warming piece of music sounded, the atmosphere became enthusiastic, and the audience sang loudly along with the music. I saw the colorful bubbles spit out by the two bubble machines, floating everywhere on the stage, the colorful lights on the stage flickered with the music, the red ones were like fire, the purple ones were like the glow, the yellow ones were like gold, the green ones were like jade, and the white ones were beautiful, and the audience was instantly brought into the ocean of joy!
The second program is a solo performance by Professor Chen Da of the School of Automation. Almost everyone in the school knows that Professor Chen is a great talent, not only has excellent professional knowledge, but is also proficient in piano, chess, calligraphy and painting, football, volleyball, table tennis, badminton, swimming, and has won the championship in the singing competition. It is said that at that time, his song "Borrow from the Sky for Another 500 Years" shocked the teachers and students of the school. Today is the right opportunity to feast everyone's ears again. Professor Chan sang "In That Far Away Place" today:
In that faraway place
There's a good girl
People walked past her tent
I want to look back and look back
Her little pink face
Like a red sun
Her lively eyes
Like a bright moon at night......
Professor Chen's singing voice was so contagious that gradually the audience sang along with him, and his solo became a chorus in the stadium.
The next program is the recitation of the soundtrack poem "Farewell to Kangqiao" by Wang Haitao and Mr. Sun of the School of Science. I saw Wang Haitao and Teacher Sun walk to the stage in turn, each standing in front of a microphone, and open the folder in their hands. Accompanied by the melody of Richard Clayderman's "Swan" piano piece, they began to recite this popular poem by Xu Zhimo:
"Gently\/I'm gone, just as \/I'm softly coming; I\/beckoned softly, farewell\/the clouds of the western sky. The golden willow on the riverside is the bride in the sunset; The shimmering / beautiful shadow in my heart / rippling. ……”
Listening to the subdued, sometimes high-pitched, sometimes low-pitched, and affectionate recitation, the audience seemed to feel Xu Zhimo's deep nostalgia for Kangqiao and the faint sadness in his heart when he left Kangqiao. It wasn't until Mr. Sun and Wang Haitao left the stage that the scene suddenly erupted in thunderous applause.
Next, songs, Huangmei opera, sketches, magic, instrumental solos, dances and other programs are colorful. Every time a variety of activities are held in the school, teachers and students are looking forward to seeing the wonderful performance of the beautiful school star Feng Lu.
Feng Lu prepared two self-dancing songs tonight, the first of which was "Beat It" by Mike Jackson. As soon as the host finished the curtain, the audience burst into thunderous applause. All the lights on the stage suddenly went out, and the applause came to an abrupt end. After a while, the lights on the stage gradually turned on, and I saw Feng Lu, who had been posed in the center of the stage, wearing a black top hat and a red jacket, with his left knee on the ground, his left elbow on his knee, his left hand holding the microphone and supporting his head, and his right arm and right leg stretched out, quite Jackson's style. When the music sounded, I saw Feng Lu jump up in the air, throw the microphone in his left hand, catch it quickly with his right hand, and start singing. This beautiful hand alone has won the applause of the audience. When the singing reached its climax, all the audience couldn't help but applaud, shaking glow sticks and clapping boards, and the excited male classmates in the audience were even whistling, and some screamed "wow wow".
The song has just ended, and the enthusiasm of the audience has not yet faded. Feng Lu changed into a lively girl's skirt, returned to the center of the stage, and began to sing the action-oriented song "Calories". The style of this song changed abruptly, and when the music sounded, Feng Lu had changed from the rock "Jackson" just now to the bouncing "Rocket Girl", singing and dancing on the stage. All the students in the audience stood up and cheered as if they were controlled by magic, waving their glow sticks, fluorescent bracelets, and fluorescent rings vigorously with both hands, writhing, jumping and singing to the music. The teachers and alumni in the front guest area were also infected by the atmosphere of the scene, and the audience was brought into the sea of joy again as the song shook the light sticks in their hands!