Moderate party
The Lunar New Year on Sunday has passed in a moderate style. We had a lot of guests, both members of the community and complete strangers who have learnt about the event from flyers.
However we started a with about 45 minutes delay, because the technician who was responsible for setting up the sound and stuff left, who knows why. He was an employee of the venue so we could not do anything about it.
After the starting ceremony it was my turn to read the tales, but just after the first few sentences the mic which I used died. I decided to get rid of the dead mic, so I stood up, like in the theatre on the stage and smoothly changed the style of the performance and my speach, mixing it with some humour. Finally it turned out that it was even better this way, the audience enjoyed it. Again (like a few weeks ago) people came to me afterwards asking if I was an actress, "because -they said- the way I speak in front of audience is so cultivated" :-) hehe. At least now I feel that it did worth studying at the drama school for almost 4 years :-)
Anyway, after the performance there were some teachings about the tales and then came the food/drink section. We had a lot of offered and blessed food and drink - so in order to not belie myself, I chose a bottle of semi-sweet wine :-))
After the food/drink there was a lottery under my supervision, but the fact that I had the wine before it added a special athmosphere to the whole thing. At least from my perspective :-) Probably no wonder I managed to make the visitors laugh sometimes, which actually was my intention anyway. Then came some open discussions about the traditional Mongolian medicine, and also a presentation of slides of our 2002 journey to Tibet and Nepal. We left at 8 because we wanted to get back to home by 9.
I had a bath, collapsed into my bed dead-tired, and fell asleep immediately, after the hard day. Probably it also had something to do with the wine ;-) yum
However we started a with about 45 minutes delay, because the technician who was responsible for setting up the sound and stuff left, who knows why. He was an employee of the venue so we could not do anything about it.
After the starting ceremony it was my turn to read the tales, but just after the first few sentences the mic which I used died. I decided to get rid of the dead mic, so I stood up, like in the theatre on the stage and smoothly changed the style of the performance and my speach, mixing it with some humour. Finally it turned out that it was even better this way, the audience enjoyed it. Again (like a few weeks ago) people came to me afterwards asking if I was an actress, "because -they said- the way I speak in front of audience is so cultivated" :-) hehe. At least now I feel that it did worth studying at the drama school for almost 4 years :-)
Anyway, after the performance there were some teachings about the tales and then came the food/drink section. We had a lot of offered and blessed food and drink - so in order to not belie myself, I chose a bottle of semi-sweet wine :-))
After the food/drink there was a lottery under my supervision, but the fact that I had the wine before it added a special athmosphere to the whole thing. At least from my perspective :-) Probably no wonder I managed to make the visitors laugh sometimes, which actually was my intention anyway. Then came some open discussions about the traditional Mongolian medicine, and also a presentation of slides of our 2002 journey to Tibet and Nepal. We left at 8 because we wanted to get back to home by 9.
I had a bath, collapsed into my bed dead-tired, and fell asleep immediately, after the hard day. Probably it also had something to do with the wine ;-) yum
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