It is a late post. Better late than never, right...

On Feb 4th, Friday about 110 students and locals, including Associated Dean Lovell and Professor Sentiza, and director of the Chinese Exchange Program Kirk Martin rang in the Chinese New Year with a two-hour gala event at Levit hall.

Sponsored by the Drake University Chinese Students Association, the gala event featured an abundance of dance, games and drama by Drake students.

Xiang Zhang, a senior in the College of Business, explained some of the culture surrounding the celebration.

"According to the Chinese lunar calendar, this Wednesday is the start of the new year. But we have classes on Wednesday, so we did this today instead," he said.

"There are different transitions across the country. In North China, people eat dumplings with our family to bring good luck in the new year, but in the South they have rice cakes instead," he said. "The food may be different, but the reunion of the family getting together is the same everywhere." We initially would like to serve the dumpling to the participants following by a demonstration how to make it...

It seemed a little bit difficult for the chef in Sedexo to handmade so many dumpling in a short notice... So it will be the biggest venture to people who join the gala next year, be ready!