Duan Wu Jie

Wednesday June 16, 2010

Today was the Duan Wu Jie (Dragon Boat Festival). It is based off a guy Chu Yuan who at one time killed himself in a river and the people didn’t want the fish to eat his body, so they fed the fish rice wrapped in bamboo leaves(zao zi). Google it/Wikipedia it for more. Class was out for the day. We met early and Yang Laoshi took us to the Cui Hu (Green Lake), and it was really pretty. There were lily pads that were 3-4 feet tall. Some people were boating on the side with small lily pads, and tried to take the flowers. One boat ran into the lilies, but everyone else did a good job. Kayla got really sick and went home. When we got back we took care of her. Yang laoshi really wanted her to go to the hospital, so we had to look up her insurance information. We ended up not taking her after convincing Yang Laoshi that she was fine. He had already called Zach however, so we hung out with him for a while. We went to eat at a restaurant Salvador’s, and I had a delicious Tuna sandwich. We then went to a dvd store, farmer’s market, and coffee shop. The farmer’s market was interesting, but nothing too out of the ordinary. The coffee shop was pleasant. We sat around and talked for a while, and that was about it. It helped me get over not liking people, because it was a change of people.