So our landlord invited us to a community celebration on Sunday. She’s a very sweet women, always good to us, who also happens to be head of the local neighborhood committee.
It was a festive little get together to make tangyuanr, have a go at the riddles strung along the courtyard, and to meet the neighbors. I invited a few friends, YJ invited her boss, and our landlord invited the press. It was actually a pretty good time, though the cameras were a little disconcerting. I learned how to “bao tangyuanr ” (easier than jiaozi), wrote some calligraphy (being left-handed and having poor penmanship in my native script doesn’t help that endeavor), and even managed to suss out a few of the riddles (though not the one mentioned in the article).*
And sure enough, Xinhua has a brief story with accompanying photos up today.
Update: YJ informs me that the article, plus a picture of me doing my best “Geico Caveman” impersonation is in today’s People’s Daily. Yikes.
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* In the article, the riddle is: Q: 十五天打一个字? A: 胖. The actual riddle was:Ｑ：有面无口，有脚无手，听你讲话， 陪你吃酒？Ａ：桌子．
LOL on the pictures, i thankfully manage to avoid the cameras as they’re all perpetually fixed on my 洋娃娃 daughter.
that sounds like lots of fun! wish we had anything like that going on in our neighborhood. we’ll probably go see the lanterns this evening at the Sun Yat-sen memorial.