That's partially true and mostly false. Since my last blog I've officially become a resident of China, I got my resident permit about a week ago. That probably was the biggest hassle out of everything, but all my paperwork is all done now. I can finally focus on studying Chinese and finding a Chinese wife (kidding).
If you didn't know this past weekend was Mid-Autumn Festival, and for those who are unfamiliar with this Chinese holiday let me elaborate. It's always on the 15th day on 8th month of the lunar calendar (Fun fact, I was born on this day). There a lot of stories regarding this holiday, but basically family get together, spend time with each other eating moon cakes. Nasty lotus seed or some other concoction of filling with an egg yolk center. I'd also like to mention eating a whole moon cake is very unhealthy for you, so many calories. This year I was fortunate that my cousin brought some ice cream moon cakes, a delightful adaption of boring tradition pastry.
Heres a video about moon cake: Moon Cakes
So for Mid-Autumn Festival, I had a 3 day weekend starting on Thursday till Saturday (Sunday was a make-up day), so I took a few of my friends to Shanghai to sight see and to just get out of Nanjing. That weekend also happened to be my birthday weekend, so extra bonus for me. It's hard to plan what to do in a city that is super crowd and even more crowd on the holiday, and for people with different tastes. My definition of holiday is to relax and enjoy nothingness, others it's packing the time with all sorts of activities.
I'm assuming everyone had a good time (?), I know I did. I had my mom act as a tour guide taking us places/ being the GPS of where I wanted to go eat. Everyone also found it funny/sweet/cute that my mom likes to hold my arm when we go walking... I call it being a good son, but to each his own. So, we spend the weekend in Shanghai going to main places, the Bund, Chenghuang Miao, Nanjing Road. Only thing we didn't do was get good Xiao Long bao, next time.
For my birthday, I somehow got out of drinking in Shanghai, and ended up playing mah jiang with the family and everyone losing money to my mom. Happy birthday to me, but she did take me and the boys out for brunch, even though I tried paying.
Here's some photos of my birthday in Nanjing, and a little gift I got from my Kentucky 兄弟
Overall, it was a great birthday weekend. Good company, nasty drinks. I'll try to post again soon about the upcoming holiday and what my plans are for that.
Until next time,
MC
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