Happy Chinese New Year to everyone! :) :party:
It’s the year of the rat now and hopefully, it’s going to be a great year for me. (I was born in the year of the rat. )
After almost a week of snow, it has finally stopped snowing a couple of days ago. I’ll upload more snow pics soon. :)

I had dinner with Desmond and the other Mauritians in Tongji yesterday. Desmond made lamb curry, Jean Noel & Karina made fried rice and potato salad, Ashish made a shrimp dish, Kailash made a chicken dish, Dominique made fruit salad, I brought the naans and the beers, Vricksha brought the soft drinks. The others helped in the kitchen.

Some photos:
JN,cooking
Jean Noel, making fried rice.

Ka,lessive
Karina at the sink.

my plate of food
My plate of food. I took a bit of everything.

half of the group
Photo of half of the group. None of the sino-Mauritians wore red. I wore red gloves (not in this pic) . Does that count? :P

After dinner, we continued to watch the Chinese New Year show on CCTV 1, played cards, domino, Pro Evolution Soccer (the guys of course) and then went to the rooftop to watch the fireworks.There were other students up there already. :cheers: :party:

I also went to the Chinese New Year dinner organized by the university 2 days ago. I don’t know how many tables there were exactly but there were quite many and only one of them was for the international students. There are many other foreign students who didn’t go anywhere for the winter holidays but not all of them got invited. As for me and 2 other students from my class, we got invited by Mrs Pei from our faculty. The other international students who got invited are from other faculties.

Group pic
Photo of the international students (some persons are missing in this pic. They left early.) and the teacher (the guy who is standing) who took us to the building. That thing I was holding was a gift.

the tables near us
The tables near us.

And now, the food. :)
There were 16 dishes in all. Photos of some of them:
the tables near us

prawn dish

a pork dish

xiao mu yu

fish dish

fish dish

The food was good but as usual, it was too much. How were we supposed to finish that much food? 16 dishes….
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It’s my 4th Chinese New Year here in China. Even if I had a lovely time, it still feels weird being so far from my family at this time of the year. :cry: