“The Long-Awaited Meeting”——Students and Teachers of LU Faculty of Humanities Celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival Offline

From September 5th to 9th, 2022 local time, during the first week of the new academic year of Faculty of Humanities at the University of Latvia, students of the Department of Sinology were overjoyed that Bai Bingyu, the Chinese teacher they could only see online for the past two years, finally showed up in the classroom. “Stepping out” from the slides of the online virtual courseware designed by herself, Bai Bingyu herself was very excited, too.

In the coming semester, the Faculty of Humanities has set up five different levels of Chinese classes for freshmen, sophomores, juniors and graduate students (first and second year). In the first class, the reunited old friends felt very cordial. Tasting the moon cakes offered by the Confucius Institute and the tea brought by Bai from China, chatting about the changes in life and Chinese learning in the past two years,  reviewing the origin, tradition and cultural connotation of the Mid-Autumn Festival……the joy of the reunion largely comes from the enthusiasm for Chinese teaching and learning. The teacher and students set their own goals, starting a new chapter of Chinese teaching in Latvia together.

当地时间2022年9月5日至9日，拉脱维亚大学人文学院开学第一周，汉学系本科生和研究生惊喜地发现，两年来他们只能在网上见到的汉语教师白冰玉终于出现在了教室中。从自己设计的线上的虚拟课件背景中“走”出来，白冰玉本人也非常感慨，二零一九年的中秋月终于在二零二二年变得圆满了。

新学期拉大人文学院共设置大一、大二、大三、研一和研二五个不同水平的汉语班级。在第一节课上，老友重逢，倍感亲切。师生共同品尝了孔子学院为大家送来的月饼和白老师从中国带来的茶，畅聊两年来生活和汉语学习的变化，为可以再次在线下与同学们共聚一堂而雀跃。同时，不同汉语水平的班级也通过不同形式回顾了中秋节的由来、传统与内涵，如研究生班的中秋诗会、本科生班的知识问答与零基础班的《明月几时有》诗词与音乐赏析……重逢的喜悦很大程度上来自于对汉语教与学的热情，师生立下各自的目标，以全新的面貌迎接新学期的到来，共同续写拉脱维亚汉语教学新的一章。