Prom in Guiyang!

Tonight our university had its first prom ever for the English department juniors!

Actually, this was quite a hassle to get approved. The person in charge of all extra curricular activities  is the communist party secretary for our department, and she does NOT like the students to really have any fun, especially not western-themed fun. Thankfully, the dean of the English department is super supportive of extra-curricular events, and she was able to approve the prom by saying that it is an academic event. The only downside is that we have to have it in the classroom on a weekday, but whatever!

Students decorating the classroom.

Not gonna lie, for the first like two hours, it was pretty awkward. No one would dance. They all just kinda stood around the perimeter of the room eating snacks. It was worse than junior high.

Girls politely standing against the wall.

Look at all these crazy snacks behind me!

But finally after they realized that if they weren't going to dance, it was going to be very boring, they all got out on the dance floor and just went crazy. And I think they had a lot of fun!

The students elected a popular boyfriend/girlfriend couple as their prom king and queen! I made them dance to All My Life.

The king and queen!

ALLLL MYYYYY LIIIIIIIIFE

I PRAYED FOR SOMEONE LIKE YOUUUU

And that was it! What a great night!