Sorry for the delay in updating the blog. The high-speed part of high-speed internet has seem to have taken a indefinate leave of absense. Haha, all of that means that the internet has been so slow this past week that my blog would not even load. Yeah, it’s kind of a problem but has gotten a bit better; at least enough that I am able to update this blog.
So a lot has happened over the past week. Instead of doing a lot of update posts I will do just one. 🙂 About tomb sweeping day because was something that I did an earlier post about.
So yeah, this past Tuesday (the 5th) was tomb sweeping day here in China and we had the day off. Most of the other China Horizon’s participants decided to use the weekend to travel but because we had to work during the weekend we decide to stay. As I mentioned in the previous post, we got the wonderful opportunity to spend the day with Zoe and her family.
We got out to the school gate at 9 a.m. and went with Zoe to her grandparent’s house. Being a bit oblivious to what was going on, we sat at here grandparent’s house for a while. Out of the blue we got put in front of us a bunch of dumplings for breakfast, they said. The dumplings were, of coarse, amazing and after stuffing those down we taught Zoe and her cousin a card game and showed them some magic tricks.
After that we met up with some other members of Zoe’s extended family and walked with them to the burial ground. After a short hike up a hillside, we arrived and started the “festivities.” The grave actually belonged to one of Zoe’s grandparent’s parents. Once we arrived, the grandmother immediately started sweeping the area around the grave. Others started hanging these elaborate paper decorations. A small fire was also started for the burning the tributes. That was pretty awesome because they gave us some paper money and we were able to join in. After all of that, they lit some firecrackers off.
All in all, I was a bit surprised that it was as small as it was. Haha, don’t ask why I thought was going to be bigger. Nonetheless, it was still awesome. I got to experience something that I normally would not have been able to experience. Personnally I am quite happy that I stayed behind to participate in this. It was pretty awesome.
Sorry that there aren’t any more pictures. Considering the occasion I did not take more. In addition, I my skin was having a bit of allergic to something. I don’t know what it was but of course, there is a picture after the break. Click the link to see. 😛
