Usually,Thanksgiving
falls on the fourth Thursday of the November.This year,according to lunar
calendar,it is Nov 24th.
In U.S.A.,Canada or some other
countries,people observe by getting together with family members or friends at
home,cooking very grand dinner which includes turkeys,apple pies,biscuits and
toasted goose,etc.
However,here in China,things will change a
bit.We are not used to eating the toasted turkey;we don’t know how to bake the
apple pie…
Therefore,this year,our hostel changed the
way to celebrate it---we held a Bazaar.
10 days before the festival, we began to
prepare for the Bazaar. We posted the news online,kept in contact with our
friends,told everyone that would be here on that day of it,so that a lot of
people were at the Bazaar.
Now,I think I need to explain something
about the Bazaar: you may buction the things by paying or
exchanging your own things.All the income from the activity will be donated to
the children in mountainous area.
That night,most of them taking part in
brought their own things,such as,precious antiques,favorite CDs,fancy perfume
made in America,delicate silk bought in Hangzhou…The most attractive one was
the paintings drawn by a talented artist of Xi’an,Chenye(陈烨),directly in front of everyone.Both of them
had the profound meanings related with the poor children who couldn’t afford
the schooling and their dreams.People there bought almost everything displayed
on the table with much higher prices than the thins’ original ones.
At the end of it,we counted the money
got---more than 5100RMB,which was all donated to the the children via the help
the voluteering website organizing the charity things.
We gave our love to the children on this day
and hopefully they would go on with their lives by the help from different
persons around the world and share the warmth from the loving atmosphere in the
festival!!!
*Related
websites:www.xayg.com
www.xianyha.com
