With a view to better exchanging with Chinese associations and Companies operating in Greece, Business Confucius Institute (BCI) has formed its Football Team in November, 2014. Totally there are 10 members including 8 Greek students and 2 Chinese.

The 8 members are Stampoulidis Maximos from E Class (our Goal Keeper), George Orfanides from B2, Ioannis Stratigopoulos from A4, Paronis Alexandros from A2, Ioannis Besis from B4, Konstantinidis George from C1, Polymeros Konstantinos from A4 and Nikolaos Ypsilantis from B1.
The two Chinese players are Peter Wu, the Chinese teacher, and Gai Bochen (Assistant in BCI office).

The first beautiful match took place on Nov. 23, and BCI Team beat Huawei Team at the scores of 7 :2.
We’ll have the match on Nov. 30 against China’s Red Star Team at 4 pm at Renti Club (Fun Park).
All friends are welcome to join us there!

On November 22nd, BCI held a culture lecture of Introduction to Chinese Tea, Art and Ceremony. Ms Yang, the director of BCI, made an excellent introduction about Chinese tea, including the origin of Chinese tea, different types of tea, tea Art which is composed of evaluation on tea leaves, processing and tasting of tea, the relationship between tea ceremony and tea culture. After the introduction, Ms Party (Chinese name is百迪), one of the audiences, volunteered to perform the Tea Ceremony and serve everyone a cup of delicious Chinese green tea. The audiences are very impressed by the rich variety of Chinese Tea, and particular the spirit and philosophy behind the ceremonies. In the end, Ms Yang gave all participants a small bag of famous Chinese black tea for them to taste back home.

On November 1st, 2014, Business Confucius Institute of Athens (BCI) held a culture lecture of Chinese Calligraphy. Miss Li Weiya, the lecturer, introduced the importance of calligraphy in Chinese culture, the relationship between calligraphy art and Chinese characters, the status of calligraphy in Chinese daily life, and four unique implements to perform Chinese calligraphy. The attendants were very interested and had a quite active interaction with the teacher. Following the introduction, the lecturer provided some traditional tools, including Chinese brush, ink, paper and ink stone, and guided attendants to practice and finish their own calligraphy works. In the end, the lecturer Miss Li gave all attendants the brushes and calligraphy paper as souveniours of this lecture.