CAP’s Egg Hunt celebrates Easter and the start of spring
In the run up to Easter last Sunday, April 1st, the Cancer Awareness Club hosted an Easter Egg Hunt around the middle-high school the Thursday before. The rules were simple. First, find the eggs. Second, return them to the club members during 3:40 to 4:00 to exchange color-coded eggs for the respective prizes.
With just 15 kuai, students could both sign up for an Easter egg hunt and chip in money to fund people who are fighting cancer in Shanghai hospitals. During the search for an appropriate funding association, Cancer Awareness Club officers revealed that they will decide upon a hospital or patient to fund for surgery costs on treating cancer at the end of the year, donating all of their budget for the help of those in need.
Different eggs have different prizes; for example, “Blue is for basic candy, pink is for more sweets, and yellow is for stationary products,” explained Anouckjin Jayasuryan (ET10A). As students wandered across halls and classrooms to trace the footsteps of the Easter Bunnies from CAP, they found colored eggs in hidden spots, including the window ledges, drawers, vases, and other unnoticed regions from our ordinary school days. Bamboo Tsai (ET12A), peeking into C-wing classrooms, exclaimed, “I feel like a child again!”
Hiding colorful eggs and finding them for a prize has always been the highlight of an Easter celebration. But have you ever wondered why the term “Easter” and “eggs” come in pairs?
The Christian bible notes that Christ died on the cross on March 30th and resurrected back to life on Easter Sunday or April 1st, marking the most important day on the Christian calendar. Nowadays, children crave on chocolate eggs at Easter, but “eggs” were not allowed to be eaten during the week leading up to Easter, for “eggs” represented the new period of rebirth and fertility. Thus, eggs were preserved during this week, also known as the “Holy Week”.
As spring marks the days of the first season of the year, April may bring a fresh new chapter to the students.
Featured Image- CAP students are ready to hide their eggs Courtesy of Jennifer Kwon