Today' I've got my friend in Sydney, Becky, to tell u about college party life. Since I have mentioned about parties in my previous article, as an *
Aussie, Becky's gonna tell u about a real party held in my uni.
Hi, people in Taiwan! Firstly I wanna introduce myself. I am a *
hongkie girl and has been living in Australia since the age of 6. Today I am gonna tell you about a formal party. In Australian Universities, there are many *
faculties. Myself is a Commerce Faculty student and that's why I met Douglas. Every year there is the *
Annual Commerce Ball. The purpose of the ball is to celebrate the year of uni life. Usually you go to the ball with a partner, but of course you can choose to attend alone. Each year there will be different *
themes for the ball. This year we have the theme of *"
mafia". Everyone who attends the ball has to dress up in the theme of mafia, yet dress up in *
formal dress code. This is a great chance for many girls (I am one of them haha) to dress up in very nice formal *
gowns.
The ball is usually held in very expensive hotel, but tickets are sold to students at discount! This year the ball is held in *
Shangri-La hotel. On the night, we were served with 3 delicious *
courses, accompanied by brilliant performances. There are also many awards, such as the best dressed, the *
bachelor of the night and the *
bachelorette of the night.
Basically, the ball is very fun because everyone gets to dress up nicely and celebrate the year at a very nice place.
I hope you have enjoyed my article today^^
Douglas will translate for you:
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Aussie - Australian的縮寫,也是一種很簡易親切ㄉ用法.通常在奧運會上妳會聽到澳洲人民為自己國家加油:Aussie!Aussie!Aussie!oi,oi,oi!
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hongkie -香港人的縮寫,如同Aussie,其他例子像:紐西蘭人你可以稱他們為kiwi,因為她們國家盛產kiwifruit!奇異果.中國人則可稱為chinky所以王立宏之前的專輯概念就是chinked out."Philipines"菲律賓人也可以稱為"Filos".
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faculties-學院,像UNSW就有faculty of commerce,faculty of law,faculty of arts and etc.我跟Becky讀的就是faculty of commerce,商學院.
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Annual Commerce Ball-年度商學院舞會.ball除了球以外還可以當"正式舞會"的意思.
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themes-舞會的主題,其他的話像theme park就是主題公園的意思.之後介紹我旅遊經驗文章裡就會介紹很多theme parks.敬請期待!
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mafia"-美國黑手黨,但這次的party比較走classical Italian mafia.路線.因為要配合正式舞會,不能穿的太邋遢.如果你有看過電影"the god father"教父,就是裡面那種風格!
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formal dress code-正式舞會衣著,像男生是一定要穿西裝打領帶,女生則一定要穿禮服.女生的部份比較講究變化才能成為party queen.所以通常會帶很多bling bling的配件.
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gowns-禮服,像婚紗的英文就是wedding gown.
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Shangri-La hotel-如果你是像許純美一樣上流社會的人,你一定去過這一家"香格里拉"飯店!是五星級的高級飯店m,和喜來登齊名.
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course-一道菜,舞會上一般有three courses: entree', main course and desserts.
分別為開胃菜(或是台灣用的appetizer),主菜和甜點.
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bachelor/bachelorette-學士和女學士,前面加上"the bachelor/bacherlorette of the night"的意思是全場最帥及最美的男女學士.
here's a picture of my friend and I (right) in the dress theme of mafia. the photo is taken by a professional camera man on the night.
other girls and boys in the dress of mafia theme
