Episode 20--Voice of Penn / Singing Contest

Guess what? An exciting event happened yesterday night at Wu& Chen auditorium. It is a singing contest held by CSSAP (Chinese Students and Scholars Association at Penn) called "Voice of Penn". It aims at finding the best voice/ singer among Chinese community, and it is considered to be a big event to all Chinese students. Yesterday was the final contest for the 11 singers that selected from the preliminary test. About three hundreds  people were are present to enjoy the show. The show began from 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm, which was pretty long for a singing contest. However, it was so great that I almost forgot about the time. Each contestant has amazing voices, and they have brought us a fabulous evening with touching songs and stunning performance. The show was made up of three rounds. On the first round, they were ranked by the scores from five judges (whom are also very professional and experienced), and only the top five were eligible to go the next round, and the contestant with the top score was exempt from the competition for the second round. On the second round, the other four contestants were paired, and the judges would give them their scores respectively according to their performance.  Then the two contestants with the higher score, along with the No.1 contestant who has been exempted from the second round were coming together to compete for the top three placements, and they were be ranked according to the votes they got from the audience. It was another event that brought Chinese students--a huge community at Penn together and had fun.

Like I said in the previous blog, it is totally common for Chinese students to feel lonely sometimes at a foreign land, in a new environment. However, organizations such as CSSAP is a comfortable zone that intends to arrange events to unite Chinese students so that we know that we are not being left out. So if you are also a Chinese, and you happen to be reading this blog, and you have put Penn GSE as one of your intended schools, and you are wondering about life at Penn, rest assure that you will be engaged in the community because you have your organization here, and you will instantly feel a strong sense of belonging and connectedness.