Voting for 班长

Today was an ordinary day in school. Until Zhao Laoshi told us that on the 27th of October we don't have class because we are going to Xiang Shan, the Fragrant Hills, north west of Beijing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xiangshan_Park <--- Link to Wikipedia here

When travelling in a group in China one needs to have a well-organised structure and good leaders. Therefore, the main event of today's class was to choose who would be ban zhang, which literally means class chief. I was put in charge of the votation, and our Laoshi was very excited about this important election. I made everyone write two names on a piece of paper, one girl and one guy. Then I carefully counted the votes during complete silence. We were all about to burst out laughing, this felt so silly when the average age of the class is 22.

Eventually the results showed that Max from Canada and Rachel from America became the ban zhangs. This was hillarious since Rachel just before the votation asked Zhao Laoshi if it was compulsory attendance on the trip. It wasn't, but now she has to go. Anyway, that was the main event of my day. Something that would be very important before a class trip, if we were all in middle school.