Today is "Yuan Xiao Jie" (Yuan Xiao festival) today, meaning the end of Spring Festival. Yuan Xiao (Tang Yuanr) are little white glutinous rice balls with black sesame paste inside, and during today's festival, Chinese people hang up lots of lanterns, sometimes with riddles on them. Life in China is much more routne than life at home. I was hoping to study Chinese at Shenzhen University because it's so close to where I live, about 5 minute walk to the East Gate, but classes don't start until March and they wouldn't let me study for only one month, before I start work in HK. After hassling the Language Faculty teachers because I was so desperate to learn, they agreed to find me a Chinese teacher. That very afternoon, a girl called me and from yesterday, we
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