Jennifer- CP 05- 9/18/10

Tonight was the Mid Autumn Festival at FSU. For a brief three hours, I felt like I knew what it would be like to be in China. The festival itself was very interesting and entertaining. There were lots of different acts and people performing (singing, dancing, acting, rapping, etc). My conversation partner, Biou, was performing in several of the acts so I didn’t have a translator for any of it… Unless, you count my sister who is in the fourth week of her Chinese high school class and can count up to ten (this actually did come in handy when they were calling out the ticket numbers for the raffle). For the most part we were all able to figure out the general idea of what was going on, but there was definitely a lot that we missed out on (especially when the entire crowd would erupt with laughter and we’d just sit there smiling and looking around).
Biou actually ended up performing in two different acts; one with a dance group and another where she got to play the keyboard. The dance that Biou participated in was honestly not what I had expected, especially from a girl who loves heavy metal music. It was a very upbeat pop song that was a little more contemporary than I had anticipated. Later, she played the keyboard while her friend, Wenbo, sang; I thought she seemed a lot more comfortable and excited about this part of her performance. After the festival was over, I found Biou in the front hall with her friends and she came bounding over to me. She was very excited and happy that I was able to come out and watch her performances. I told her that I thought she did an excellent job and that I could tell that she spent a lot of time dedicated to her performances. The Mid Autumn Festival as a whole was very interesting and I actually enjoyed being able to experience it with Biou.