Every year in early October the
Mid-Autumn festival takes place in China. This festival consists of eating, children carrying lanterns, and looking at the moon. People generally eat moon
cakes, which traditionally consist of red bean paste, with a salted duck egg
yolk inside. (I know that sounds gross, but they actually taste ok, not my favorite
though) During this time people generally get a couple days off to celebrate
and give moon cakes to one another, along with other small gifts.
In the case of my school they
hosted a small banquet in the school canteen and gave us a couple of gifts.
These gifts consisted of a box of four moon cakes, a couple liters of peanut
oil and 10 kgs of rice! Both Catherine and I got these gifts, but as Catherine
couldn’t make the banquet I had to get them from the school to our apartment,
which is at least 30 minutes away and on the fourth floor!!
The gifts were nice, and we are at
least set for oil and rice for the rest of the year!!
I'll probably end up leaving oil for people next year! Which I'm sure they'll really appreciate...
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