J+127 CLASS 9 "mini concert"

 

 My classmates were overexcited yesterday about a "mini concert" they organised, since the music teacher exceptionally couldn't teach us.
It was really cute to see how much they had prepared for this! A planning, an order for the er.... "Performances", they asked me to write "mini concert" on the board; they are all mad crazy about my handwriting !
Anyway~ one boy played saxophone, it was amazing! The rest made me quite sleepy to tell the truth. Asian music is very soft, and sweet, has no beat most of the time. I miss that a lot !

J+126 SNOW in Nanjing!

On the 26th, we had snow in Nanjing! I was woken up by my Christmas alarm... Looked out the window... WHITE! Oh! Goodness! I never got dressed so fast! And, I decided this was worth arriving late. Yes, in school the first lesson starts at 7:15, very early and ends at 8:45...
My teacher told me "if you feel uncomfortable one day, just arrive at the first break" ~ I couldn't fight the temptation this time!~

 

 I took some pictures ... For my two best friends, ... Who I miss terribly ...

J+126 My special Christmas

To sum up, my Christmas was nothing like what I had expected. I have been warmly surprised, and realised how many good friends I have here.
I received a lot of cards, gifts, in school.
I got a HUGE teddy bear.. Check out the pic, a LOT of chocolates, poems, flowers...
I made a lot of little cards, with personal messages on them, added a chocolate and gave them to about 70 people!
I also gave some chocolates to the guardians of my building, and wished them Merry Christmas.

 The two next photos were taken in Xin jie Kou, by a photographer. For than "Nanjing beauties" ... What an honour!

 

And this is what shopping centres looked like:

 

 Christmas party...Also, in front of the church, just next to my school, MASSIVE QUEUE!

J+122 Christmas with my Chinese family

As you know, to most Chinese people, Christmas doesn't mean anything. Still, a lot of shops in big cities put up decoration and staff members dress as asian Santa people... (It looks pretty special~) I appreciate their efforts! lol
But in fact, their isn't much more to it.
However, last night, I had a long evening conversation with my parents and sister, we all sat down, ate sun flour seeds... (Actually this is my fathers new addiction... Since he has stopped smoking, he eats this all the time; we joined him!)
They asked me a lot of questions about our Christmas, how we celebrate it..
My father was particularly intrigued by what he calls the "turkey buisness"
-price?
-weight?
-cooking means?
-taste?
As soon as it comes to food, he is all ears!
They concluded very happily ~hahaha! Chinese food is really better !"~

They then told me about the Chinese New Year (农历新年), coming soon.
It sounds so exciting!
I will make a lot of posts about this, and beautiful photos.

This morning my parents told my sister and I we could go and buy something we liked, and gave each of us some money, as a Christmas present~
In china it is a tradition to buy some new clothes for the new year, BUT ONE SHOULDN'T wear them before that day. Is is symbol of "new start".
I went out for a long walk with my sister in the morning, she tried on a lot of clothes, but needs to think it over.

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We noticed we had the same "leg posture issue"

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My attention was held by this fellow: begging in the underground.. Holding ... AN IPHONE ..

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My parents also allowed me to hand all the pictures I received, to decorate my bedroom!

    

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J+122 end of the singing competition

The Singing contest in our school is taken very seriously.

 

Some of the performances were amazing. The prize is the title of the official "best 三中 singer" .