中秋节快乐

Yeah it's mid-autumn festival tomorrow (or today, depending on where you are). I actually celebrated it today and ate mooncakes!

The NCSU Chinese fellowship of Raleigh Chinese Christian Church organised a mid-autumn festival event at Jordan Lake today. About 50 over students came, quite a good response. Met at the usual meeting place and car-pooled to get to Jordan Lake. The lake is really beautiful and huge. There were people on boats fishing in the middle of the lake and an area for people to swim too.

We had about 2 hours of free time to do whatever we wanted (swim, play frisbee, walk around etc). I joined the group playing volleyball, but there were quite a lot of people playing so didn't get to hit much though I served a lot. Then we had BBQ dinner, plus dishes cooked by the church members. Good time over dinner just talking and getting to know people. I always have stuff to talk cos they will ask about Singapore (I'm quite extra there cos the rest of the students are from China and some from Hong Kong). Met some of the people that I saw before at the welcome party/Fri fellowship/church/breaking bread/Raleigh tour. Also got to know 2 undergraduate Chinese students studying in College of Management (so far all the Chinese students I've met are graduate students). Ah it's so nice to not have to speak English sometimes (or rather speak proper non-Singaporean English that people understand). And yes, the dinner ended with delicious mooncakes (some home-made too!) but the park closes at 8pm so we had to leave before the sky even turned dark and couldn't stay longer to 赏月 and see stars.

What a enjoyable time with Chinese people. Happy Mid-Autumn Festival! :)