mid autumn festival

well its holiday time here in china. they r celebrating 'harvest time', its known as 'mid autumn festival'. they go crazy over the moon and eat moon cakes and have lots of fire works and crackers and other noisy things. they all have a gay old time! to us, it means nothing. accept time off! or more realistically, no money for 2 weeks!!! but it is a real big deal over here.

yest went bowling with jon and shani and the whites. was fun. but now my right arm has no working muscles, i think i pulled them all as all those balls were so rediculously heavy! even one of my finger muscles feel sore! is that even physically possible?!!hmmm, well aparently it is.

the other day i went into my mum's work to see how things operate as i will be doing some relief work for her for two days. she is going to beijing and wont be back quite in time for when school starts back. it sure is a nice school. its for korean children only and theres not a huge ammount of students there. everything is run with excellency there. real good to see. some of the chinese schools r a little grose and the children are so over worked. but there is such an amazing atmosphere in there. i am really looking fwd to relieving there. to be honest, i want a job there. i was sposed to have one but not enuff students enrolled for the new school near-shame.

on the way home we walked past a middle school that was having an athletics carnival. it was nothing like wot we have in australia. it wasnt just a carnival, it was an event!! everyone was so pumped and the competitive atmosphere was very clear. they had a band in one of the corners of the field, consisting mostly of drums, but also some loud symbols. they played and clashed as ppl were running. as the races drew to an end they got louder and louder and louder! it really added to the atmosphere! it was so exciting! we were watching a relay. it was a real long one, seemed to go on forever. i was going for blue and they won! with all the drums and cymbols i got so excited that i wanted to jump up on the fence and start screaming GO GO GO GO GO GO!! haaha. it made me think about how beijing is hosting the olympics in 2008. from seeing wot i did at the field i just know that the 2008 olympics is going to be totally awesome. the chinese are such performers. they r also a very proud nation and i know that they will want the whole world to be in awe of the amazingness of the games. i wud love to go to the opening ceremony. it be amazing!

hhmm
anyway, til next time..