Next weekend is the Spring Festival, but the strange feeling I have is that it is just another holiday break and has nothing to do with the Chinese New Year. It sounds all dangerous as the New Year used to be the biggest festival that I had longed for when I was younger. I wonder if it is because I am older and wiser to be practical about it is just another day in my life, or there are really lack of cheers for the Chinese New Year celebration around.
For the last week or two, my beginning Chinese groups have been working on several performances such as a small play called Three Little Piggy, two songs: one is Laoshu Ai Dami, one of the most popular song in China for the last two years I think, the other one is Bude BuaiJinsheKuangwu which loved by my African students. An American Chinese boy in Year 7 is going to play with Pipa which is quite impressive. Suddenly, I have become a drama teacher, music teacher, and even an instrument teacher. This is totally not the reason I come to work for this school. The celebration needs me to make such a have-to contribution.
Still, these preparations do not make me feel that we are preparing for the Spring festival. Instead, it is just preparation for another assembly in Harrow, indeed it is. The celebration for the Chinese New Year is going to be on Friday which one day before the Chinese New Year. My mum insisted that we should go back to Wuhan for the time and refused our invitation to celebrate the New Year in Beijing. So booking tickets becomes a headache for me, in fact for many, at this time of the year. Last time I checked there was only tickets avaiable on the New Year Eve, so I am still waiting for the chances to get tickets for the day before the Eve. Anyway, mum is calling me home and I feel the urge to get tickets the night before the New Year Eve. The urge that drags me back to Wuhan stings me slightly and it seems something or someone tries to tell me that it is a time for a family reunion and it has to be one day before the Eve.
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Dear Lynn,happy Chinese New Year! I came home last night from Shanghai and it was horrible to see such a big crowd around different places. As you mentioned in the blog I also feel nothing special about Spring Festival these years but always visit home during this particular day. I have moved to Shanghai since October due to Gerd's work transfering. We are having a good time together and planning to get married in the following months. Keep in touch, Lynn and all the best wishes for you and your family!
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