Not dragon boat rowing

Today's talk was about Dragon Boat Festival - to be more authentic, 端午(duanwu) Festival - the beginning of the fifth month in the Chinese lunar calendar. Dragon boat racing is the most phenomenal ceremony of commemorating the great patriotic poet called 屈原 (Qu Yuan). (If you are interested, please click here to watch a Youtube video of the festival, which I used for my talk).

I related the topic to sports - rowing, swimming, diving, skiing, surfing, etc. which are more engaging with the audience, and offered expressions of can-do and cannot-do, likes and dislikes. Most of them would just murmur but one or two voiced out - the effect of convincing them that it is not a horrible thing to learn the language. ;-)

Again, the negative feedback resided in no food provision - the health safety prevent me (also protect) from offering food from outside. University catering cannot do it. So the agreement was the Catering sector should implement the internationalisation strategy by recruiting international chefs - starting from Chinese one ;-)

Sorry, great distraction from food. Back to rowing, the two girls did a nice turn around. The local Chinese Dragon Boat Festival will be on Sunday. I will try to take some good photos. But a friend is coming to Belfast International after lunch so I have to quit earlier.