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Friends from afar
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These children are from the brass band of Germany Hamburg Christianeum Middle School. Their school has been the sister school of the junior high school of Beijing University for many years. After the students in the junior high school of Beijing University have visited Christianeum Middle School, the Christianeum students will also come to China. They will communicate with the Chinese students about music.
Their first destination is a famous historic site—the Great Wall. The students composed a special melody just for their visit to the Great Wall, which seven students perform. Because there are many ebullient Chinese friends surrounding them, they all feel very nervous. After good preparation, wonderful music slowly pours out of their instruments.
It is these children's first time to visit the Great Wall, so everything on the Great Wall is very new to them. Everyone wants to remember this scene forever; they are busy taking pictures.
The journey to the Great Wall has brought the children excitement and novelty. The children leave for the CCTV station to participate in an English Talk show from the OUTLOOK English magazine. While at the studio, the children perform a wonderful jazz piece – "Give Me Some Loving." The upbeat music and the pulsatile notes will soon be transmitted to every family in China. Later, the German children talk about the music they performed.
The music brings enjoyment and happiness to the children and the music is also a perfect way to communicate. It helps people from different countries to become friends. The junior high school of Beijing University is the sister school of the Christianeum Middle School. While at the junior high school of Beijing University, the German students have met a lot of their age mates.
This is one of the junior high school of Beijing University's concert halls. After a while, there will be a concert here, and the students from the two countries will communicate with each other through music.
The performance of the German students begins with a Chinese folk song—"Jasmine", sung by Laura Spreugler. She sings the song in Chinese, so she receives a storm of applause from the Chinese students.
The German students perform jazz. They focus on the style of several instruments. Often, the students from one section would perform while the other students played accompanied them. The band worked together harmoniously.
Even though the students of the junior high school of Beijing University used the same instruments as the German students had the classical and folk music that they played sounded unique and new to their German counterparts.
I think many differences between our two bands. The kinds of music we play more than music like jazz, rock or sometimes pop. They are playing more classical songs.
The German students were also able to get a taste of eastern art, when they watched a dance performed by the students of the junior high school of Beijing University dancing team.
Kathryn Pecota used to play in the band. Since she is a good singer, she now only sings with the band. The German students' band performance ends with a successful solo sung by Kathyn.
I like this band because I like the way the music song together, the way they play together and the type music they play, so I was like to sing for this band because I really enjoy it. It's a great experience.
The concert is coming to a close. The German children take pictures with the Chinese teachers and students. They will have sweet dreams tonight and they will become pulsatile notes in this campus tomorrow.
Music is becoming a bridge of friendship between the Chinese students and the German students. Today, some German middle school students will experience the campus life of Chinese students at the junior high school of Beijing University. In so doing, they hope to gain a better understanding of the day to day life of Chinese middle school students.
The German children are attracted by the pictures in the school's display case. These pictures are about their school. The students in the junior high school of Beijing University took them when they visited the Christianeum Middle School in Hamburg.
Later, the children enter the chemistry lab of the science building. The various of chemical reagents in the chemical lab's display case are not unfamiliar to them.
However, the instruments in the physical lab arouse many boys' interests. Look, this little boy is watching with rapt attention.
I know this machine from Germany, but in Germany just our teacher has it. Here I saw several students they can use it and make the experience. In Germany just the teachers show it. This is very good school, very good materials, and very good quality.
After the children leave the lab, they come to the eastern painting classroom. In addition to appreciating the pictures painted by the students in the junior high school of Beijing University, the children also want to display their own artistic skills. Several students pick up painting brushes and begin to paint at the easels. This little girl is the youngest one in the band. Let's look at what she is painting.
It is different between our houses in Germany and Chinese house. The Chinese house always like this, the roof is a (kind of eaves), and the Germany's are normal roof. It's funny to see that, so I've drawn it.
These Chinese writing brushes are very different from western painting brushes; they are distinctive and capture the interest of these children. One girl is painting just like a professional.
Two of the boys are very interested in Chinese characters, so they stay in the art classroom and, with the teacher's help, learn how to write their Chinese names with the writing bushes.
I ask my teacher for showing me how to write my name in Chinese letters, my name is Christopher and but it's very difficult because all letters are not like the letters in Germany and I have to try.
In order to help the German children learn more about Chinese culture, the teachers of the junior high school of Beijing University arranged a special lecture for these children on Wushu. The teacher taught them about one of the quintessential aspects of China—Taiji. The supernatural qualities of Chinese Gongfu cause the children to become very engrossed in their learning. After over an hour of exercise their movements are just like professionals.
It's a good sport because you move all parts of your body, so every muscle is moving, it's really interesting.
We just have the lesson in Taiji. I really interested because this is totally different kind of sport to we have in Germany, we can't do this in Germany.
I mean we have some practice course. we can do it, but this is just totally new area for us. So many of us really curiously to learn that kind of sport.
In the evening, the teachers and students in the junior high school of Beijing University prepare a sumptuous dinner for the German children. The children taste the delicious Chinese food and talk with their Chinese friends, with whom they are now very familiar. Each of these children has personal feelings about their journey to China.
I mean it's basic thing of education. It's part of your life because with that you are able to communicate better. They take a lot of time, but I think it's worthy because I think It's a part of education, will help me in my life.
We like the foreign friends very much because we can talk about different custom and different habits and different foods.
We got along very well. I hope she is going to the Germany in summer to meet again her.
The visit is over and the German children will now go back to their familiar environment. But they will always remember every minute of their time in China. They bring music and friendship to China and go away with well wishes from many Chinese children.
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有朋自远方来
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这些孩子是德国汉堡克斯迪安内中学铜管乐团的成员，他们的学校与北大附中是多年的友好学校。在北大附中的学生们到他们学校进行参观访问之后，这一次他们来到了中国，与这里的学生们进行音乐交流。
他们的第一站是闻名遐耳的景点—长城。为了这次长城之行，他们在学校里特意创作了一首七人演奏的曲子，由于周围有很多的中国朋友围观，因此大家的心理都很紧张，经过一番仔细的准备之后，优美的音乐从他们的乐器里缓缓流出。
这些孩子是第一次登上长城，周围的一草一石对他们来说都是那么得新奇，每一个人都想把长城的景色永久地保留下来，于是都纷纷按动快门。
长城之旅带给德国乐团孩子们的是兴奋与新奇，从长城上来之后，孩子们又应邀来到了中央电视台，参与《希望—英语杂志》栏目的谈话节目。在演播厅中，孩子们演奏了优美的爵士乐曲《Give Me Some Loving》，激昂的音乐、跳动的音符，将传递到中国的千家万户。随后，德国乐团的孩子们又聊起了他们的音乐。
德国学生乐团演奏的是爵士风格的乐曲，因此很注重展现某一种乐器的风格，所以有时候会由一个人或几个人主奏，其他人来伴奏，整个乐队得十分默契。
北大附中的学生们用同样的乐器演奏的却是纯正的交响乐和民族乐，给这些来自德国的同行们一种耳目一新的感觉。
我想我们两个乐队的风格很不同。我们演奏的大部分是一些爵士乐，摇滚乐，有时候是一些流行音乐。但中国学生演奏的是一些古典音乐。
北大附中舞蹈团的学生们表演的舞蹈，让德国的孩子们感受到了一种极具中国风味的东方艺术。
Kathryn Pecota 曾经也是这个乐团里的乐手，由于她在唱歌方面很有天赋，所以现在是乐团里唯一的歌手，她的演唱为德国乐团的演出画上了一个圆满的句号。
我喜欢这个乐队，因为我喜欢这种将音乐和唱歌结合在一起的方式，喜欢他们演奏的音乐，所以我喜欢为这个乐队唱歌，我感到很开心。这是一段很好的经历。
交流演出结束了，这些来自德国的孩子们与中国的师生们共同的合影。今晚他们一定会在异国他乡做个好梦，明天他们又会成为这座校园里跳动的音符。
音乐架起了中德两国学生的友谊之桥，为了能更好的了解中国的学生，这些德国孩子将在北大附中感受一下中国学生的校园生活。
校园里的宣传栏首先吸引了德国孩子的目光，原来他们在那里看到了他们学校的照片，这是去年北大附中的学生们到他们学校参观时拍的。
转过画廊大家走进了实验楼的化学实验室，橱窗里数十种化学实验药品对他们来说似乎并不陌生。
不过物理实验室的这台仪器，却引起了许多男孩子极大的兴趣。看，这个小男孩看得多么聚精会神。
在德国我见过这种机器，是我们老师使用的仪器。刚才我看到有几个在用它做实验，但在德国这个实验由我们的老师来做。这是一个很好的学校，有很好的教学设备。
走出实验室孩子们来到了西洋画室，看到北大附中学生们的作品，他们自己也想显显身手，纷纷在画板前拉开了架式。这个女孩子是乐团里年龄最小的，让我们看看她在画些什么。
中国的房屋和德国的很不同。中国的房子是这个样子的，屋顶是（重檐式的），而德国的屋顶就是普通的那种。看到这样的屋顶我感到很有意思，所以我把它画了下来。
与刚才熟悉的西洋画笔相比，毛笔可成了这些孩子们眼里的新鲜物。这个女孩子看起来还挺专业的。
这两个男孩子对中国字尤其感兴趣，索性留了下来，跟着书法老师学习写一下自己的中文译名。
我让老师教我写我的中文译名，我的名字叫克里斯特夫。但是这对我来说很难，因为汉字与德文完全不一样，但我会尽力把它写好。
为了让这些德国的能更好的接触中国文化，北大附中的老师们为他们这次来访安排了一堂特殊的课—武术课。这位老师要教他们的是中国的国粹之一—太极。在他们眼里，这是一套多么神奇的功夫，所以每个人都学得很认真。经过一个多小时的练习之后，他们的架式已经有那么点意思了。
这是一项很好的运动，因为它能让你身体的每一个部分都运动起来，每一块肌肉都能得到锻炼。这真的很有意思。
我们刚才上了一节太极课。我对此很感兴趣，因为这对我们来说是一种全新的体育活动，我们在德国没有练过。我们有一些其他的体育活动，但练太极对我们来说是一个全新的领域，我们很多人都对这项运动很感兴趣。
晚上，北大附中的师生们为远方的客人们准备了一顿丰盛的欢送晚餐。孩子们一边品尝着可口的中国食物，一边和已经熟识的中国朋友亲切地交谈着。他们对这两天的中国之行都有自己的感受。
我想这是一种基础教育，它是我们校园生活中的一部分，通过这样的活动，我们可以学会如何与别人更好地交流。这样的活动会花费一定的时间，但这是值得的。这也是我受教育的一部分，对我的生活很有帮助。
我们非常喜欢这些外国的伙伴。因为我们能够在一起谈论不同的风俗，习惯和食物。
我们相处得很好，我希望今年夏天她能去德国，我希望能再次见到她。
访问结束了，孩子们又要回到他们熟悉的环境中去了，但在中国的每一分钟都是记忆中永不退却的，他们带来了音乐和友谊，带走的却是更多中国孩子美好的祝愿。
Laura Spreugler演唱了一首中国民歌《茉莉花》拉开了德国乐团表演的序幕，由于她是用汉语唱的，所以赢来了北大附中学生们的阵阵喝彩。
音乐带给孩子们的是一种享受，一种快乐。同时，音乐又是一种完美的沟通方式，使不同国家的人们都连在了一起。北京大学附属中学是克斯迪安内中学的友好学校，德国孩子在这里见到了许多与他们同龄的中国孩子。这里是北大附中的礼堂，过一会儿，这里要举行一台音乐会，两国的学生们要进行交流演出。
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