Lantern Festival & Ayden's Friday (2/22/08)

Ayden Writes:

Yesterday was the last day of Spring Festival. My family, my tutor, my tutor’s friend and the bus driver went to the old city where we walked the wall. The wall was bursting with people because it was the last day of Spring Festival. The last day of Spring Festival has another name, Lantern Festival . I saw more fireworks than you would see in the United States in 500 years. The fireworks made me feel worried because they were happening all around me.

Today I went to school. School was the same as all of the other days this week. Nothing different happened. When I got there all of my friends were waiting for me so that they could start class. My teacher asked me how I was feeling because yesterday I didn’t go to school. I was dehydrated. We started with Chinese class then we had morning exercises. After that, we had math, a break and eye exercises. I don’t know what the next subject was because I couldn’t understand any of it. I think it was politics. Next was PE. We played a game that I never heard of before.

Then I went home for lunch. After lunch, my mom, my brother, my tutor and I went to get cell phones. After shopping for cell phones, we came back to our dorm rooms.

Everyday we have a cultural class. Today it was painting. We painted a loquat on a tree. A loquat looks like a teensy weensy beensy orange. I didn’t want to do one so, I just watched. They came out very nicely. And that was my day.

--Ayden