til the dawn

The majority of my day was uneventful. This morning's class was lackluster, but I followed it with some delicious, off-the-street fried rice. Then I went to Feeling Tea, the bubble tea place across the street from school. I got passion fruit milk tea with tapioca bubbles. It was so great! I need to come up with some other ways of saying delicious and refreshing.

This evening was the real show. Our roommates and their friends here at the school put on a party for the Mid Autumn Festival. We met up around 530 to help them with food preparation. We rolled rice paper spring rolls and peeled and cut fruit. They did most of the hard work, but we were able to help with some of the simple tasks. We stuffed the spring rolls with pork or beef, lettuce, rice noodles, egg, and carrot. They were phenomenal. There was also soup, these rice chips, and sweet/vinegar-y cucumber salad. I've never seen such a bounty! In terms of fruit, there was longan, watermelon, pomelo and guava.

They asked us to perform during the festivities. We attempted to sing a little bit of wagon wheel as our TA, Kim, played the guitar. Mostly, we just sang more loudly to make the fact that most of us didn't know all the words to the verse and were not in sync with the guitar. Our second performance was our alma mater/fight song. It's good to be a Tar Heel.

After our performance, our roommates showed us a traditional Vietnamese dance with bamboo sticks. The sticks are on the ground and are moved in and out while people dance through them trying not to get their feet caught. It's like jumping rope with a different rhythm. The picture below is Joey with his game face on conquering the bamboo sticks. We eventually digressed to just a dance party.

Now I'm eating this moon cake. I don't know what's in it, but it sure is tasty.