After our participation in the Xiluo Cultural Festival street parade, our headmaster and dean invited us to perform in the school anniversary festivities and Community Athletic Games. We were very glad that this performance was to take place within our own community, because then all our parents, relatives and friends would be able to see how well we dance.

  Families of the community began arriving shortly after 8:00am. The school anniversary and community athletic games opening ceremony was scheduled to begin at 8:10, and our performance was to be the grand finale to the ceremony. After the headmaster and guests of honor gave their addresses and several other groups had been onstage, it was time for us to put on our own performance.

  We got into formation, arranged our lion masks, and waited for the music to sound. As it started playing, so we began to dance gleefully, swaying with the music and waving our lion masks. Halfway through our performance, we changed formation and rendered ourselves into the Thousand Hand Buddha, a feat that won wild applause from guests and families alike.

  Times of enjoyment always pass quickly by, in no time at all our performance ended, and as the last segment of music began to play, we positioned ourselves into a beautiful formation as a finale to the dance as well as to the ceremony. As the music came to a stop and we gratefully accepted thundering applause from guests and audience, so we played the final act and performed, as sixth-graders, out very last performance at the Athletic Games.