Mid-Autumn Festival
Interesting conversation at work today:
Yuci: We had the most amazing shrimp yesterday at dinner. *___* And Mom had, like, all these facts to go along with the food, too. The shell of the shrimp, she said, hardens after the spring wind blows by, which - I mean, doesn't that sound so romantic???
Me: Mmm...totally. Good dinner topic next time you go on a date and order shrimp.
Scott: *sticks his head into the conversation from his office* So to sum up: something blows and something else gets hard. ^______^ Doesn't that sound familiar?
Yuci and me: ...GO AWAY.
So. >>
In other news, Mid-Autumn Festival was insane(ly fun). I shlumped out of bed at six, spent 30 minutes getting lost (in my own campus no less), and wasted the following two hours setting up tents that collapsed five hours later - thankfully not on top of someone. >> Although, um, to be completely honest I think that would have made the event a little more headline-breaking. As it was, there was just a lot of sweating and cursing and Chinese people saying things like, "You not put lantern on ceiling pillar, yeah. It be bad fengshui.
In the afternoon, I sat down and taught little kiddies how to cut paper and the importance in not pretending that scissors are light sabers. It is, apparently, a concept not taught in school. Scissors are not toys, kids - even lime green safety scissors.
In any case, the papercutting was spectacularly exciting because, hello, cutting paper in a nice fall breeze - and by fall breeze, I mean a mean 30 mph wind - what could be more exuberating.
Yuci: We had the most amazing shrimp yesterday at dinner. *___* And Mom had, like, all these facts to go along with the food, too. The shell of the shrimp, she said, hardens after the spring wind blows by, which - I mean, doesn't that sound so romantic???
Me: Mmm...totally. Good dinner topic next time you go on a date and order shrimp.
Scott: *sticks his head into the conversation from his office* So to sum up: something blows and something else gets hard. ^______^ Doesn't that sound familiar?
Yuci and me: ...GO AWAY.
So. >>
In other news, Mid-Autumn Festival was insane(ly fun). I shlumped out of bed at six, spent 30 minutes getting lost (in my own campus no less), and wasted the following two hours setting up tents that collapsed five hours later - thankfully not on top of someone. >> Although, um, to be completely honest I think that would have made the event a little more headline-breaking. As it was, there was just a lot of sweating and cursing and Chinese people saying things like, "You not put lantern on ceiling pillar, yeah. It be bad fengshui.
In the afternoon, I sat down and taught little kiddies how to cut paper and the importance in not pretending that scissors are light sabers. It is, apparently, a concept not taught in school. Scissors are not toys, kids - even lime green safety scissors.
In any case, the papercutting was spectacularly exciting because, hello, cutting paper in a nice fall breeze - and by fall breeze, I mean a mean 30 mph wind - what could be more exuberating.