happy new year, kind of

Celebrated the Chinese New Year last night.

Sheaun is a student at Edin. Uni and also a valuable partner at Eikon. She invited us out with a number of her friends, including Yvonne and Tony. It was a site to watch Tony and Yvonne because they're both fluent in Chinese, they were the life of the party. The group in the picture were some other students we met, from Lybia, Uganda, Nigeria, China, S. Korea, Taiwan and ourselves. Kate mentioned how enjoyable it was to be around young people that value their traditions so much. There past-time was making dumplings along with a massive feast. They showed such respect to us as "guests", refusing to let us clean-up and ordered us to eat first.

I also happened to meet another couple there who happened to be at our Ceilidh. The girl was in one of Yvonne's classes, while her boyfriend, eric, was from france and is working. Eric lived in Japan for a while, speaks 4 languages while I'm not very good at English. Sad, very sad.
Kate and I made dumplings and we slowly got the hang of it, everyone was very gracious.