Cultural week UNIVA 2013

From Monday 20 of May to Saturday 25 UNIVA students, teachers, staff and parents lived the UNIVA’s cultural week 2013. This year the format of the event changed, this time the classes were off and the students had to assist to 5 events daily, so this time the number of events increased tremendously.

·       The opening:

Where: SUM

Date: May 20

In Monday we started with the opening with the participation of the drama club, Jazz, regional dance, ballet and singers. The event started with the voice of Santiago Mendez Bravo telling the story of the staring of UNIVA. Then a play about his life and dead, after that the regional dance club had an intervention with the jazz club next, the play continued and a video of a teacher telling how great was when UNIVA had their own building after a lot of years of sharing building, then Jazz club appeared again, the ballet club and an opera singer presented “Allegria”, closing with the presentation of all the participants of the event dancing randomly to Wepa.

·       Math Rally:

Where: UNIVA

Date: May 21

My team

As a personal experience (because I participated obviously) was cool, long and tired but cool. The rally consisted in 7 stations each one has a math topic and a challenge, the people in charge of the station gave you an envelope with the problems you have to answer, the exercise could be of topics of 2º, 4º or 6º, the team should be integrated with 2 students of each grade, you had 20 minutes to answer the exercises and even if you are done or not you had to do the challenge. The event stared at 10:00 and end at 1:00 but to the day we don’t have the results of the winner.

·       “ Chico y Chica UNIVA”:

Where: SUM

Date: Mat 23

Hour: 7:00 – 9:30

This year “chico y chica UNIVA” event was a little more crowded, the organization of the event had a little bit of trouble because some people were in the front standing up without a place to sit forcing the ones with a sit to stand up in the chairs, and in every intervention of the hosts they asked for everyone to sit down for security rules, even some coordinators had to say the guys to sit down more than once, but as soon as the runaway start they stand up again.

The host Geraldine and Fernan teachers of the communication area were the hosts, they did a wonderful work even the noise and the problems of space. The first runaway was casual, the second one was already with their night gowns and the third one was a vintage run away showing how people dressed in other decades. And while the judges make a decision  a pair of girls danced a remix of Latin  Rhythms.

 After the first elimination the judges table, that includes Adrian Lopez and the director of R G  M model agency (that prepared the contestants), asked the remain participants things like, if you have to choose one food to eat all your life what would be it ?, If you can have dinner with anyone, dead or alive, who would be it? And what is your dream job?

The winners got tickets to the cinema, Agua Caliente, and scholarships for Gaurrie . The first place was Elizabeth Garcia  and Daniel Jiménez, both of 4º semester. At the end of the event there was a “cocktail” but by the time we went out of the SUM the sodas (yes a cocktail with only sodas) and the food were gone.

 ·       Movi-Danza & Ritmo-Dance

Place: SUM

Hour:  10 :00- 12:00

Date: May 24

This event was divided in two the first hour was like a Zumba class with a teacher that danced a lot of different rhythms and songs, and the second hour was a class of cross fit with 3 instructors. The first class we can say it was relaxed and funny and the second one a little harder and strict, but a lot of people give up and sit down .

·       Exposition cultural week poster

Place: Principal hall

Hour:  9:30- 4:00

Date: May 21, 22 and 23

1º PLACE

The exposition included all the posters that were considered for the cultural week, and showed the 3º first places. There were some good one, but other that seem to have been made in paint.

2º PLACE

3º PLACE

·       Extreme Games:

Place: soccer field

Hour:  10:00- 2:00

Date: May 22

The “extreme games” were a jumper of titanic, another of pyramid a boxing ring, a trampoline and two mechanical bulls (that are not extreme games). Also they charged the entry and in the schedule doesn’t say anything about paying for it, but anyways it was really fun to remember your childhood. 

·       Recycling workshop:

Place: biology lab

Hour:  11:00- 11:50

Date: May 22

I entered here waiting an exposition of recycled crafts (because the original name of the event is “expo taller reciclado”) but actually it was a workshop, just like papirolas it was fun, we made a portrait and a candle holder, the first one was easy with cardboard and tin foil, the second was a little more elaborated with a candle and a soda can. 

The new format of the event: I liked it but it was a little bit  too because everything is full and you have to do waiting likes of years!! There were more events, and better ones and a week without clases is pretty cool, but i suggest taht the next year, should take the classes, but give us the schedule of specific events that have to go, it would be easier for everyone, and also to have optional events like chico y chica univa.It was a good cultural week, better tan the other year one.