Apr 17th, 2008
My favourite kind of Chinese classes
…involve a minimum of textbooks and a maximum of food. Recently it was the Songkhran festival, or water splashing festival, which is the Thai and Laotian new year. The Dai minority here in Yunnan also have a water splashing festival around about the same time. We have lots of Thai and Laotian students at my university (my class has 2 Thais, 2 Laotians, 1 Swede and me), so we had a wee do on Monday morning, with free food and a little bit of water splashing. It was also one of my clasmates’ birthdays so after starting class late, we stopped for birthday cake. I’m doing well with my mission to celebrate a new year every month.
Today another of my classmates bought ice creams for everyone, and we got to watch a film about the Dai minority instead of a vocab test. Wo0H!
