Happy Lunar New Year! February 20, 2007 01:07:22 AM
For those of you who may not have noticed, yesterday was the Chinese New Year. I guess it would be hard to realize it if you weren't looking for it, as would any other non US holiday. I guess thats another cool thing about college, being in the middle of so many cultures, you get to experience so many more aspects of life that you wouldnt normally.
Any ways, so on a whim, I went with Keven and Nyan to UVa for a huge celebratory dinner in honor of the new year. We met up with the Singapore club up there. David met up with us too from Nova. It was a totally sweet trip. The 'VT group' conviened at Khine's, then caravaned over.
The dinner was traditional in almost every sense, right down to the offering of oranges to the host in exchange for good offerings (a personalized envelope with money in it).
Now this house we were at was very nice. Apparently the hosts were the vice president of finanace at UVa and her husband was a professor of economics. The food was fantastic, so much and such a variety! We played games and puzzles, did a lot of sitting around and talking, and then people went picture crazy and took tons.
Afterwards, we went back to Khine's to say good bye (she didnt come by the way, had to talk to parents over important matters) but we ended up staying! Even though Kevin had tests the next morning, David talked us into getting beer and spending the night there. It was already like 11pm and we were going to get up at 6am. But we did it anyways. Sleeping locations were scarce, so khine and i sacrificed the bed for the floor so their'd be enough. WHOO that was something else! I'll just say, that floor was most... uncompliant. LOL now I know how the people at Hannah's party who slept on the hardwood floor must have felt :-0
Either way, I got to see Khine twice this week, and thats always good. And the party was pretty nice, so it all worked out!
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