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Birthday celebration

China day in the life exploring 厦门 Friends NSLI-Y 厦门

July birthdays

Sunday, July 17, we celebrated all the July birthdays. After a regular day schedule we went to a restaurant instead of the cafeteria, for dinner. The restaurant was on the first floor of our dorm building. They ordered our food ahead of time (they asked us during class what we wanted) so it was ready when we got there at 5:30. I ordered a spicy chicken dish and it was so spicy is partially burned all the taste buds off. I couldn't finish it but another girl, Jessica, got the wrong dish so she gave it to me to eat since they made her another meal. After we finished eating our meals they brought out the cakes! Since there were 4 people with birthdays in July (Michael, Andy, Tim, and most importantly, Skylar), they had 4 different cakes. They were so pretty and so yummy! We sang happy birthday in Chinese 4 different times for everyone and then they began to cut the cake. Everyone got a slice and ate every bit, trying to savor the delicious taste!

Sydney and I ready for the concert

After dinner we walked over to the 厦门大学 music hall. Remember the high school we visit last week, 厦门外国语学校? They were the ones who preformed. They invited us (since it was at the 厦门大学 campus) and gave us free tickets. It was their 10 anniversary concert at 厦门大学 so a lot of alumni came to play as well as the students. They were absolutely amazing! They all played so passionately, even the ones in the back row. The concert lasted for 3 hours; super long but super good.

The next day, Monday the 18th, was another regular day except we had another buddy activity. We played a game (more like a challenge) where we had to lift someone of the ground for 2 seconds only using 4 fingers and a fist. So we divided into teams of 6; 5 people to hold the person and 1 person being held. 4 out of the 5 people could only use 1 finger to lift while the 5th person used a fist. We ended up just grabbing Maddie by the belt loops on her shorts and lifting her up which gave her a huge wedgie but worked!

She loves me

After dinner Maddie, Skylar, and I planned on going to the reservoir but by the time we were ready to go it was already getting dark. Therefore we ended up just walking around campus and looking at the little shops. I bought a map of 厦门大学 which I'm going to pin on my wall back at home. I also got some cool pencils for school that have Chinese writing on them. Skylar and I were on the lookout for 厦门大学 t-shirts but we couldn't find any. Later someone told us to check the campus bookstore so we might go there another day.

Also the mommy cat gave birth!!! I saw her the other day and she was so skinny I thought it was a different cat. But no, it's the same cat. Hopefully, I get to see the babies soon!!!


Guess what?!?! We move into our host families on FRIDAY!!!