It seemed like 3 years since we've received each other's letters. How's it going? I hope you and your family are doing well.
The winter holiday went by really quick, it only took a blink of an eye for us classmates to reunite again.
I didn't get to celebrate a proper Lunar New Year from 2011 to 2015 since I was abroad, we would still travel from Berlin to Hamburg by train to attend a big dinner party for the Chinese-speaking people. The people from the embassy, including the ambassador of Taiwan would attend that dinner. But it didn't feel like the New Year I remembered in my childhood. Now that I can celebrate the holiday properly in the country, I visit both sides of my grandparents. The tradition has a rule that the family must visit the grandparents of the father's side first, due to the gender inequality of the Chinese culture.
We gather everyone in the house and have lunch and dinner together. People would start to give out red envelopes and the children would say some blessings to the elderlies like wishing for them to be healthy and wealthy.
This holiday is one of a kind, you must at least experience it once in your life.
Warm Wishes, Aubrey Chu
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