Mag...num????Hey all,
This weekend is the mid-autumn festival (a long weekend for everyone in China). They celebrate the middle of Autumn and the fact that we will see the brightest full moon of the year next week. Everyone goes home to see family and they all eat moon cakes (a weird sweet cake that are only eaten once a year at the mid-autumn festival). So yeh, it is a long weekend and it was rideiculous trying to get home from work on friday as all of the students who live at the school were catching the same bus as me.
Shit. I accidently deleted half my post. Drat.
Ok so anyway, my boss hosted a massive lunch on Friday for all of the foreign teachers and the other chinese teachers in my department...it was delicious. After the lunch he gave us all two big boxes of moon cakes for the holiday so that was nice of him.
This is an example of a mooncake. There are heaps of different flavours though, none of which I am able to name.
I played guitar for my students on friday to fill some time at the end of the lessons. I looked up and saw like 15 people filming me with their camera phones. It was weird. They all seemed to enjoy the western music however, even though they couldn't understand what I was saying/singing...
Caitlin bought us a badmington set as heaps of people play badmington at night time. It should be good under this crazy full moon. In China, everyone comes out at night. As people all live in these little apartments and dorms, everyone comes out at night and talk, dance, play badmington or hackey sack, eat, drink, listen to music or buy stuff from the side of the street etc. I can liken the atmosphere to club nights at swimming club, except without all the swimming. It's warm and friendly. I can only speculate that, if this is what is like every night of the week, then Sunday night's celebrations are going to be awesome town.
Here is a lil video of what a normal weeknight is like across the road from out apartment building:
Anyway, Caitlin starts uni next week so we'll see how that goes eh?
Oh yeh, and here are some photos of our awesome cooking so far with our limited western grocery resources.
Nice.
Pauly
LOL P.S -Caitlin sleeps with one eye open. ;)
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i think i am going to hit up some club nights at yeronga park... we are also having these massive swim/breakfast fests every saturday morning with all of the boys. its choice.
anyway, matto and i are watching some weird british show that has naked girls who are having threesomes, so must... get back... to it. ohkay.
Hey Paul, do you think that there must be something wrong with 'Moon Cakes' is the Vietcong can only stomache them once a year? I'm glad you're going well. Have you explained the disappointment felt unanimously across Australia as the Raiders dropped out of Premiership contention to your students? We've all taken it pretty badly... Anyway, head up soldier.
Good shot Caity, Paul you are awful. First Gizmo then Caitlin. I hope you don't heavy........
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