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1st Place Student Award from The 2nd Princess Cup Writing Competition C
oncordian International School won another highly renowned contest “The 2nd Princess Cup Writing Competition”, which was organized by Chinese Embassy, CLEC-Bangkok, and the Thai Alumni Association of China’s Universities. This year, participants of adult, youth, student, and teacher groups competed together. Out of more than one thousand submitted essays, 174 were awarded, and out of the 174, 47 were from Concordian with three 2nd awards and two 3rd awards. Only 7 students were awarded top 2nd and 3rd place prizes and Concordian students took 5 of them. The only first prize was awarded to Mrs. Li Yang, the Guzheng teacher of HRH Princess Chulabhorn who was once Meena (Grade 6): I am a six-grade student, this is my first year in middle school. When I joined the the guest speaker to our G8 music class! Writing Competition, I felt really nervous at the On Sunday November 29th, 47 Concordian beginning and scared to compete because my writing students were invited to attend the award ceremony and skills are not really good. I spent many many days celebrate their success. Concordian received awards writing this essay, it was really challenging, but my including, second place (Lynn from Grade 12, Poj teachers gave me many suggestions to help. After from Grade 8 and Meena from Grade 6), third place I edited, edited, and edited again, I got the sense (Lina from Grade 8, Great and Hui Hui from Grade of accomplishment, and I learned how to express 10), and many other honorable awards and recogni- emotions through describing objects. Even though tions. Concordian International School also received I got second place, I still think that I should learn an additional first place Contribution Award for the varied vocabulary. I am looking forward to participating in more Chinese events in the future. outstanding achievement. The winning students are: Grade 6: Meena Grade 7: Sheen, Otto, Ice Grade 8: Poj, Ben, Ty, Haady, Tasha Grade 9: Man, Mon, Grace, Matmee, FantFant, Jinnie, Lina Grade 10: Huihui, Khim, Brim, Great, Temmy, Anna, Gail, Jenny, Jean, Pinky, Celine Grade 11: JL, A-bond, Victor, Amm, Fiona, AngAng, Nicky, High, Pinn, Kamlai, Prae Grade 12: BeiBei, Keekwang Graduated Grade 12: Lynn, Elim, Rada, Tata, June, Munmun, Shin
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Ms. Min & the Secondary Chinese Department
Sheen (Grade 7): The Writing Competition was very interesting, and very supportive to the education of Chinese language. Personally, I think that this will help me further my understanding of Chinese literature because first of all, it will help me learn and use a variety of vocabulary that we just learned, improving my essay along the way. Furthermore, this year’s competition also helped me to be more creative in writing my essay, incorporating, different, new and intriguing ideas. Making my essay more unique. In conclusion, I think that this year’s writing competition is very fun, and is a very suitable event to improve and further your understanding of Chinese literature. Poj (Grade 8): The Second Princess Cup Chinese Writing Competition is a highly anticipated and sought-after competition each year. Although writing our essays is time-consuming, there is an odd satisfaction in completing this literary work. This year’s effort really did pay off as I won the second prize. However, the most truly rewarding part of the competition was learning new writing techniques throughout the writing process. I hope to continue developing more Chinese linguistic skills in the future. Finally, I would like to encourage everybody to participate and study Chinese literature as well.