Mid Autumn Festival is Almost Here!
So tomorrow is a holiday called Zhongqiu Jie, or Mid Autumn Festival. This is when the moon is it's fullest and roundest. The tradition of Zhongqiu Ji is to buy mooncakes and eat them while admiring the beauty of the moon at this time of year. Most people go home to visit family on this holiday, but if some can't go home then they eat mooncakes and admire the moon from where they are. They can rest easily knowing that their family, no matter how far away, are doing the same. With that being said I plan to eat mooncakes and admire the moon with my classmates tomorrow night. After I go out to dinner with my temporary Chinese mother, as I like to call her, I will meet my friends at one of the small lakes on campus to view the moon. I will be thinking of all my friends at home.
Besides being excited about tomorrow night I am looking forward to the my classes tomorrow. Rather than describing are text verbatim, like usual, we are going to do a little role playing in two of my classes. In one class I get to be a government official advocating the one child policy. In the other I am a husband in an arranged marriage. I am not as excited about the second class.
Today I walked around campus and took lots of photos of the cleaner and prettier parts of the campus. I will be taking more photos of different aspects of the campus. This includes some of the not as nice aspects, for example, the small rivers that go through campus. On the school's website they look really nice and beautiful, but right now they don't have much water, if any, and they stink. Sandra also requested that I take pictures of the traffic congestion, so I will. Maybe then you can understand the perils of riding a bicycle in Beijing.
This morning a teacher helped me find some information about skateboarding in Beijing. Apparently the shopping area I went to a couple weeks ago has a church nearby. At the church there are a lot of kids who skateboard. Since I know how to take the subway there I will go over our break. I need to be careful though. I think I will walk around and do some shopping before hand or just watch the people skateboard to make sure I won't get arrested. Getting stuck in a Chinese jail would suck. On the other hand, if I can meet some cool people to go skateboarding with that would be cool as well.
Besides being excited about tomorrow night I am looking forward to the my classes tomorrow. Rather than describing are text verbatim, like usual, we are going to do a little role playing in two of my classes. In one class I get to be a government official advocating the one child policy. In the other I am a husband in an arranged marriage. I am not as excited about the second class.
Today I walked around campus and took lots of photos of the cleaner and prettier parts of the campus. I will be taking more photos of different aspects of the campus. This includes some of the not as nice aspects, for example, the small rivers that go through campus. On the school's website they look really nice and beautiful, but right now they don't have much water, if any, and they stink. Sandra also requested that I take pictures of the traffic congestion, so I will. Maybe then you can understand the perils of riding a bicycle in Beijing.
This morning a teacher helped me find some information about skateboarding in Beijing. Apparently the shopping area I went to a couple weeks ago has a church nearby. At the church there are a lot of kids who skateboard. Since I know how to take the subway there I will go over our break. I need to be careful though. I think I will walk around and do some shopping before hand or just watch the people skateboard to make sure I won't get arrested. Getting stuck in a Chinese jail would suck. On the other hand, if I can meet some cool people to go skateboarding with that would be cool as well.
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