Chinese New Year

CHINESE NEW YEAR

Families can travel 1000’s of kilometres from all over China to be together at this special time. Homes are decorated with red and gold couplets and lanterns, put up to welcome luck, health, and prosperity into the home in the New Lunar year.  Certain dishes symbolic of good luck and wealth are eaten during the Chinese New Year. The shape of Chinese dumplings symbolizes wealth and is one of the most important foods in Chinese New Year. Traditionally, members of a family get together to make and eat dumplings on New Year's Eve to wish good fortune and wealth to all.

International Students and staff got together for a New Year Luncheon on February 15th to celebrate this most important day of the Chinese calendar. Hundreds of delicious handmade dumplings, a significant component of the celebration, along with many other offerings helped our students celebrate this day without their family.

Red envelopes or Red Packets containing money are given to children from their parents, grandparents, and others as Chinese New Year gifts. Our students didn’t miss out on this tradition and all received a red packet, however, our red packets contained gold coins but of the chocolate variety! Their excitement at receiving a red packet quickly evaporated when they realised they were not going to get rich with these sweet red packets!

Although the students could not be with family, all were very grateful and happy that Mount Eliza Secondary College not only acknowledged their special day and but shared in the celebrations with them

YEAR 8 - EXCURSION TO POINT NEPEAN