SURPRISE! (>"(^'o')^

A very belated request for @rui-da-selva who requested a “badass Garnet”.

Sorry this is just a glorified doodle… I googled “action poses” and drew the one I liked best, though the anatomy still came out wonky… oh well!

As promised to @saeter-daeg, some snow photos! 

The place assigned for this event (Internations) was Gloria Jean’s Coffee, which is apparently an Australian coffee house franchise that was bought by a Chinese company. It was a really cozy looking cafe, but I failed to take a single picture of it.

We were the first to arrive, and met with the event organizer, Catherine, which is a Chinese lady who is fluent in English. We chatted with her for a while and everyone was having a good time, until… the Americans arrived (DUN DUN). There was nothing wrong with them of course, it’s just that suddenly, it felt like an event for Americans only since EVERYONE besides us and Catherine were American, so we started to feel a bit left out. Not only that, but they were all businessmen/women and we were simple scholarship students…

We left soon after to avoid all the awkwardness and went to participate in the final event of the night: The Mid Autumn Festival/Moon Cake Festival!

The Mid Autumn Festival (中秋节) is a holiday in China that has to do with their ancient calendar, and as you might’ve guessed, it falls in the middle of Autumn in accordance with that calendar (this year, it fell on Saturday 26th/Sunday 27th). This is just a very basic explanation, but you can just go and read online about it if you want, there are quite a few folk tales about this holiday and they’re very interesting.

Anyway, the most common thing to do on this date in modern days is to simply get together to have a good time and eat moon cakes. I didn’t take a single picture of my moon cakes though… I only really like the ones with strawberry inside anyway, the traditional ones with beans taste awful. To me at least.

Me and my usual gang met at Ahmed’s University (Tianjin University) to attend some event there, where we got free moon cakes and listened to some students telling the story of Chang'E (one of the tales associated with this holiday). There was not much to do there, so we just went to have dinner out afterwards and then we each went home.

And for my last post of the day, here’s a drawing I posted on my door to keep my flatmates away (it had the opposite effect).

Yesterday I spent most of the night chatting with the russian couple, and the guy showed me some of his sketches because he likes to draw too (and make origamis).