This is my first Chinese New Year I have abroad without families beside me, but I spend several wonderful days with my friends. This journey becomes a forever memory of happiness and warm for me.
On 30th of the last month in Chinese lunar calendar, we still had our classes in COM1, which depressed some of us quite a lot. However, the celebration that afternoon gave all of us great joy. We were blessed to have Chinese traditional food such as jiaozi and delicious sushi for lunch in classroom. Besides, our monitors prepared some interaction games for us. In one impressive game, we should play in two people, one of them is to describe the Chinese idiom printed on the screen in English and the other ought to guess the idiom. I found I was good at Chinese idioms as I got 8 correctly in 3 minutes, the most in my group. After two games, we finished in a song ‘We are the world’ with our dear tutor Ms Christine.
I was honored to be invited to my host family on Feb 2nd, the Chinese New Year Eve. They showed great hospitalities to supply a substantial meal including some special local dishes. Though theses local food tasted a little bit strange to me, I still felt excited at the great chance to taste it. There were quite a few people in their family with one daughter in
After the lovely dinner, I went back to NUS where I celebrated the Chinese New Year with my classmates. We enjoyed the Chinese New Year gala together and chatted freely with our family members and friends online. I was very grateful that our seniors prepared large quantities of snacks so that we could stick to midnight without hunger. By chatting with the seniors, I also learned more about university life which we would experience after the bridging course. It will be an unforgettable memory because it was the first time I waited for the new year to come with my friends abroad since I was born
I was so happy that our befrienders didn’t forget us as one of them invited the whole group to his home on Saturday. Though he was in Serangoon, far away from our Eton Hall in Queen’s Town, we were excited and headed there in the morning. Apart from chatting and eating, we played several interactive games. The most interesting one for me is a kind of card game called ‘saboteur’, in which there are two kinds of roles, miners and saboteurs. Miners should try hard to find the gold mine while saboteurs ought to block miners’ ways to the gold mine. Players don’t know everyone’s role except himself, so we need to pay attention to each person’s actions and guess it. We were absorbed in the game, enjoying the smiles on everyone’s face. At the end, we were so happy that someone even suggested playing ‘Sanguosha’, a more complex but interesting card game, together next time.
These happy days drives away my desperate miss of my homeland and make me feel more excited and warmer inside. The series of experiences will never fade out…
06/02/2011
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