Yesterday there was the mid-autumn-festival in Hong Kong — and some other Asian countries as well.
We were invited by our hostparents to join the family dinner, so we could learn something about how Hong Kong people celebrate this day.
Tradional food is moon cakes with different flavours and pomelos.
After dinner people go on the streets or in parks to meet friends or play candle games — however I still don’t know exactly how that works. It seems that little children have lots of fun, running around and glowing neon sticks, which replace the tradional toys and lanterns.
My festive mood was supported by an orange lantern I got (for free) at Yoshinoya (Japanese fast food chain — but way better than American fast food chains, which name I don’t want to post)…hehe.
By the way it’s a very nice decoration and my room becomes a little more comfortable.
Anh Thu
It´s my first time living and studying in Asia. And it is a whole different from Germany. I think the thing I like most is that I get to know so many people here.
Against all experiences from other students who were at UST I´m getting along with the local students really well — way better than with the exchange students. It might be the fact that I look like a Chinese, so everybody tries to speak Cantonese to me first and then realizing that I didn´t understand anything… (that so funny). Thanks to that and facebook I got to know so many nice girls and I hope that we can become really good friends.
But it seems to me that I´m the only one who has this experience. The other exchange-students stay in their group of foreigners — what a pity. But fortunately, it´s not my problem at all.
I´m looking forward to my appointment with Ebe (and maybe some other girls) next week. The buddy program is great! If you´re going to UST sometime you have to apply for it. Most buddies are so helpful and it´s the easiest way to get to know local students, so try. And if you´re lucky, you´ll get more than only one buddy.
See you next time.
Anh Thu
