(Picture of the inside of "Matang Village" or the Yinlu factory)
(Xiamen Yinlu Food Co. is famous for its canned foods and other bottled products - we got to go through the entire factory!)A few days after Halloween and a lot has happened! China does not really celebrate Halloween, though it is beginning to be a popular holiday shipped over directly from the United States. The American students here definitely celebrated, though, with a lot of partying and crazy costumes!
The day after, we went to the Matang Village, which wasn’t even really a village! It was the home of Xiamen Yinlu Foods Co. which built a gated technological/factory community where the Matang Village used to exist.
“Xiamen Yinlu Group locates in the first batch of °National County and Township Enterprise Scientific and Technological Park Xiamen Yinlu Hi-Tech Park, which occupies 800,000 square meters with nearing 400,000 square meters construction area, it is one of the largest manufacturing facility of canned foods and beverages in both Fujian province and the country, key supported developing enterprise of Fujian province” from here
A few days ago, I also received word that my ballot arrived back home! Voting in Surry County, I had the pleasure of participating in my first presidential election as well as vote to re-elect my mother for her position on the School Board. It was exciting, as well as to vote from abroad! I had planned this two months ago when I applied for my ballot, received it last month, then immediately sent it off again. I am still so excited it made its way back to the States!
Something that was even better, though, was re-learning to play Mahjong yesterday with my Chinese language teacher. After two games of learning rounds, our teacher joined us playing. With a bit of luck on my side, I then won the next three games until we called it quits. :) It was a lot of fun and I can’t wait to buy my own Mahjong set to bring back home! I will try to explain the rules again later, though there are so many variations that it is kind of pointless :D
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