This past Wednesday we celebrated our first Chinese holiday, the Mid-Autumn Festival that falls on the 15th day of the 8th lunar month. This holiday, much like Thanksgiving, values spending time with loved ones.
We spent our time meeting Chinese college and grad school students. Though some of us discovered that mooncakes look better than they taste, all of us discovered that Chinese students have more in common with us than we thought. Despite a minor language barrier, we successfully communicated with them in Chinese. Not only did we get to practice our Mandarin on such an auspicious Chinese holiday, we made many new friends.
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