It seems like they have finally realised that we think that there are not enough activities which have been organized for us and that we sometimes feel ‘left out’. Whenever we enter the main gate at Siping road and walk near the Chinese students’ buildings, we can see some ads or notices on the boards about some events which are going to take place in Tongji. However, when it comes to our buildings, nothing. The only notices on the board are those about parties or HSK, calligraphy classes. I think that it would be nice if they let us know what’s going on at Tongji. True, some of the international students don’t care about what’s happening at Tongji but many others do.

There’s a soccer tournament going on now and surprisingly, International students have been asked/invited to participate. The International students’ office chose some guys from our faculty to make up a football team and the team members were all given a pair of soccer shoes as well as a tshirt with ‘国际文化交流学院’ written on it.
football tshirt for international students
Some guys didn’t get shoes though and that’s because the shoes didn’t come in sizes big enough for them. awwww. :neutral:
I noticed that the team against which our faculty has played so far don’t have their faculty’s football t-shirt.
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Some pics of soccer match which took place last week on the 11th October.
We won 5 - 0.

Some pics from the match.

国际文化交流学院 team
international students

传播学院 team
chuan bo xue yuan students

Some warm-up
warm up

During the match:
during the match
players
players running

Idriss looking so bored. At that time, the ball was always on the other side. Our goalkeeper was a tad bored and tired of standing.
goal keeper bored

Shortly after the 4th goal, there was some kind of argument and two players from the opposing team left. One of them had pushed the referee, apparently because he disagreed with the referee’s decision. The referee had given him a yellow card and I suppose the player got angry. His friend also left. bah…. :???:
argument

After the match, just to joke around… autograph time! haha
william giving an autograph

The next match is tomorrow and we’ll be playing against a strong team this time. Well, that’s what the teachers say. Whatever the outcome, we’ll all have fun; the players on the field and us, cheering them on. yes, 加油!