New YEAR

HAPPY CHINESE NEW YEAR!

Today is the first day of the Chinese new year. Yesterday we ate a HUGE lunch with Teddy's parents -more than 20 dishes, a few courses, some expensive wine, and sharkfin soup = /. The whole lunch was repeatedly interrupted by people cheering eachother wishing them a good next year. There were many speeches and lunch took a few hours.

We then went and played frisbee in a park and returned to Teddy's house for dinner. After dinner we sat on the couch and watched the Chinese new year program on TV. Lots of dancing and good performences. Teddy's parents came out with gifts, and we accepted them out of respect.

We stole out into the darkness only to find the sky exploding with fireworks. Children littered the streets throwing fireworks and giggling with merryment. It was an amazing day to be in China