Free Day!

Instead of morning exercises, Jingshan holds a flag raising ceremony every Monday from 7:30 - 8 a.m. The whole school stands in columns, except for the elementary school who stay inside and peek their heads against the windows while the national anthem blasts. Middle schoolers in their green uniforms and high schoolers in our blue ones stand on separate halves of the court. Each class forms two lines, one for boys and one for girls, with the exception of class four (the special class for the best math and physics students). Girls and guys stand together otherwise the girls line would be far too small and the boys unproportinally long in comparison to the rectangle formed by the rest of the school. Announcements always follow the flag raising. Today, the speaker praised a student for returning an 100 yuan bill he/she found on the ground. Acts such as this help the harmony of the school.

In English, students started to present their "My Dream Festival" projects. The first kid to go called his festival "Free Day!" Free Day is essentially like any Friday afternoon or Saturday in America, with some added bonuses. It's a day when students can totally relax and not worry about or be assigned any homework. They can hang out with friends or "special ones," meaning boyfriends or girlfriends, all day long. Unique festival perks include the possibility to assign teachers homework, instructing teachers how to dress "better and more formal" and calling up your teachers and telling them everything wrong with their class ("You assign too much homework," or "Your class is boring!"). He carefully went through the year's schedule and decided that there are two adequate days a term, further enough from vacations that they're useful and mid-terms that kids can actually relax. His presentation was accompininied by the best powerpoint I've ever seen complete with his own animation and music.
When he finished the teacher turned it over to the class for grading. Everyone said he deserved an 100, but the teacher gave him a 95 because he didn't make enough eye contact with the class.
What would you do on your Free Day!?
I'd make jiaozi and baozi and eat them!