{"id":615,"date":"2012-02-07T12:36:49","date_gmt":"2012-02-07T17:36:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/?p=615"},"modified":"2012-02-07T12:36:49","modified_gmt":"2012-02-07T17:36:49","slug":"chinese-new-year-celebration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/2012\/02\/chinese-new-year-celebration\/","title":{"rendered":"Chinese New Year Celebration"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Spring Festival!!! It&#8217;s the biggest holiday in China and many other Asian countries!<\/p>\n<p>This year at the University of Iowa, I finally had the chance to learn more about this <em>Chinese New Year<\/em> that I have heard so much about.<\/p>\n<p>AWESOME! Is the word I would use to describe it! Although what I experienced here was not even a fraction of what is actually done to celebrate this magnificent holiday in it&#8217;s homeland or in U.S. \u00a0metropolitan areas heavily populated with people of Asian decent, I still learned a lot and I had a nice introduction to the culture and traditions behind THE YEAR OF THE DRAGON! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Papa John&#8217;s Lunar New Year<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2012\/02\/2012-01-23-12.12.24.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-617\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2012\/02\/2012-01-23-12.12.24-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2012\/02\/2012-01-23-12.12.24-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2012\/02\/2012-01-23-12.12.24-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here is a picture of my friend Gisela hookin&#8217; herself up with some Chinese dumplings and sauce! At the business building there were assorted Chinese dumplings, miso soup, and cute deep red envelopes. Earlier in the year I was dating a Chinese international student and he informed me of some of the traditions associated with the Lunar New Year. One thing that he said is that they eat dumplings as a good luck charm (or something like that), oranges are also seen as good fortune during the New Year.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>CSSA Spring Festival Gala<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>A friend of mine asked me if my dance team, Iowa Andhi, would be interested in performing in front of 500 people. And of course I said Heck Yes! So, sure enough we were performing at the Chinese Student Scholars Association&#8217;s Spring Festival Gala. During this event both\u00a0English\u00a0and\u00a0Chinese\u00a0were spoken (Talk About Immersion!), people sang, danced, and did magic tricks.<\/p>\n<p>My dance team was the first to perform, \u00a0and while we were upstairs in the Iowa Memorial Student Union rehearsing, I remembered that there was a concert about to go down on the 2nd floor. Soo&#8230; during water break I ran down to the second floor only to find the band still setting up. I shared with TBD that I had a performance tonight so I couldn&#8217;t come to the concert, but that only means that they must come back and they HAVE to take a picture with me for good luck! \u00a0They agreed! So here is my picture with Tim Be Told! ::))) #GEEKED!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/timbetold\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/#!\/timbetold<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/timbetold\">http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/timbetold<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Check out their music on their website\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timbetold.com\/\">http:\/\/www.timbetold.com\/<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_616\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-616\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2012\/02\/2012-01-27-18.55.35.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-616\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2012\/02\/2012-01-27-18.55.35-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2012\/02\/2012-01-27-18.55.35-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2012\/02\/2012-01-27-18.55.35-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tim Be Told<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_618\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-618\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2012\/02\/417304_10150495420996651_507306650_9095991_818590151_n-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-618\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2012\/02\/417304_10150495420996651_507306650_9095991_818590151_n-1-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2012\/02\/417304_10150495420996651_507306650_9095991_818590151_n-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2012\/02\/417304_10150495420996651_507306650_9095991_818590151_n-1.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-618\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Back Stage Photo!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There was also an event that I could not go to because I had class, but here is the brochure.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2012\/02\/2012-01-23-14.44.36.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-619\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2012\/02\/2012-01-23-14.44.36-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2012\/02\/2012-01-23-14.44.36-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/files\/2012\/02\/2012-01-23-14.44.36-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This upcoming Friday me and the girls will be performing at the Vietnamese Student Association&#8217;s Lunar New Year Celebration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/events\/285393374839950\/\">Here is the\u00a0Facebook\u00a0event<\/a>! It should be awesome! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spring Festival!!! It&#8217;s the biggest holiday in China and many other Asian countries! This year at the University of Iowa, I finally had the chance to learn more about this Chinese New Year that I have heard so much about. AWESOME! Is the word I would use to describe it! Although what I experienced &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/2012\/02\/chinese-new-year-celebration\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Chinese New Year Celebration<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":621,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.admissions.uiowa.edu\/kyra\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}