Happy #PengyouDay from The Daily China!
November 17th is the official #PengyouDay in 2016. Today, Project Pengyou Leadership Fellows are promoting and celebrating “US-China study, engagement, and friendship,” as described on the Project Pengyou website, through face-to-face and social media interactions. This year, the project is working together with the US State Department’s International Education Week, Fulbright Program, and US-China Strong Foundation to increase awareness of #PengyouDay and to encourage students of the Chinese language and culture to share their knowledge with peers.
Join in the celebration of #PengyouDay by
(1) posting a picture of yourself with American and Chinese friends on social media with the message, “Happy #PengyouDay #projectpengyou #IEW2016”
(2) teaching any Chinese word to a friend and posting of picture of this interaction onto social media with the caption, “I taught (name of person) (word taught) in Chinese! Happy #PengyouDay #projectpengyou #IEW2016”
(3) having a conversation with someone different from you, teaching them a word in Chinese, and posting about it online with the message, “Happy #PengyouDay #IEW2016“
and/or
(4) attending or organizing a #PengyouDay event!
#PengyouDay is such an amazing event and a brilliant method to empower students to take initiative, make new friends, and teach a new language to others. To celebrate today in my AP Chinese class, my fellow classmates and I worked on a project about the unique “pengyou” we have in our class and learned about what makes each of us special individuals, but also indispensable parts of the AP Chinese community.
The Chinese II class in Jericho High School also celebrated #PengyouDay, but in a different way. Instead of completing an in-class project, they did the “Mannequin Challenge” to demonstrate the camaraderie of their class! Check it out here!
I truly hope you will share the news of #PengyouDay with your friends and will practice the act of making new friends and teaching others Chinese words (that you learn from The Daily China!) to close the gap between cultures and advocate mutual understanding and collaboration between Chinese and American communities.
Check out the Project Pengyou website here!
Check out the 2016 #PengyouDay Video here!
有一首歌的歌词是“友情，人人都需要友情。不能孤独走向人生旅程……”！除了亲人，朋友是人生里最不能或缺的。交了益友，会使你一帆风顺，但是一旦交到了损友，那就会使你前途无“亮”了！在这个一年一度的朋友节里，我们应该好好的整理你的朋友圈，看看到底自己有多少个可以交心的好友，在你需要帮助时，能助你一臂之力，而不是袖手旁观。同样的反省自己，是不是在朋友需要你帮助的时候，你也会不无反顾的帮助他呢？
This is really cool that there is a friend day in China, I never knew about it until I saw this article! I hope the message can spread and that everyone will know about this and bring more people together!
I love this article! Friends are so important, so it is great that there is celebrate them!