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10月30日 Halloween Party, dancing and the free turkey~I'm writing this out of someone else's computer so forgive me that I cannot type in Chinese and thus my first English blog, which is basically just a dry narration of what happened in the past few days. guys, please bear with me for the mean time, till I write a proper Chinese blog next time...
This coming Tue (Oct 31st) is the Halloween, reputedly one of the most fun but also spooky holidays in USA. It's my first time to actually experience Halloween cos Singapore never really had the tradition of celebrating it, let alone China. On sat evening NOC threw its own Halloween party, everybody dressed up as much as they could. It was really hilarious seeing people dressed up in that way, exhibiting an alternative persona than what they are usually known to be. My top 3 favorites are weijie, xiankan and gim huat, who dressed up as a hippie, a pirate and a ninja turtoise respectively. Joey bought a costume on my behalf. It was a flimsy, scanty dress worthing only 5 bucks, I was supposed to be a devil, but apparently I failed, since nobody thought a devil should dress in such light pink...But we were not the truly creative ones yet, walking on the streets, you could see people dressed up in all kinds of weird stuff imaginable, some even daring the cold weather by being almost naked~
After the NOC party, we went on to the party thrown by club SG and HK, it was just soooooooooooooooo overcrowded, packed with people drinking and dancing wildly. I never liked that kind of environment much and thus left earlier but for those who stayed, most of them were totally gone by the time they reached home, gibbering all kinds of funny rubbish and many suffered from a hangover the 2nd day.
Sunday afternoon, I went taking Rumba and Swing dance classes from UPenn ballroom and latin dance club. I found that amazingly, after such a long while, my dancing skills seem to finally pick up, I seem to be suddenly enlightened and am no longer as clumsy as i used to be, haha~
The best part came on Sunday night, when our household, the 9 Ludlow angels (or devils) got a free turkey for exceeding a certain amount of purchase at Fresh Grocery. It took us hours to bake the turkey but finally it was done and we stuffed it with cheese and carrots and cherry tomatoes!!!!! Gosh, this resembles so much of a thanksgiving or a christmas. i really start to love this household, where there's an overflowing of fun, love and care. 10月17日 新英格兰之秋费城的气温最近低得吓人，夜间已经接近零度了，但这个周末我还是和朋友一起租了一个mini-van开车北上，去更冷更有秋意的美国东北角的小镇Plymouth, Vermont看登山看秋景. 两天下来，发现以前在诗歌里面读到的或是油画里面看到的风景感情竟然在眼前活生生的出现了，让我惊喜得不能自已。
首先是我们住的小木屋。我们在Plymouth的一片林子里租了一个两层楼的红色小木屋过周末，小屋不大却五脏俱全，楼上四个暖色调的卧室，楼下客厅，生火的壁炉，厨房，地下室有台球桌，table-football等等。夜里外面凉气逼人的时候，里面却全是温馨舒适，欢声笑语，就像童话王国里面的故事那样：一片茂密的树林里有一个小房子，里面住着快乐的小精灵。。。
其次是星空。由于城市里的空气污染或者是灯光污染，很少见到真正的满天繁星，抬头只能看到朦胧的月亮和漆黑的天空。而这里，远离城市的喧嚣和繁华，夜里很静，空气很透明，整个天空深蓝得醉人，上面清晰地洒满了晶莹闪亮的星星。我一直仰着头，怎么看也无法将那种宁静至极的美景全部揉进脑海里带回来。
然后就是这里秋天的漫山遍野的层层秋色，叶子先是变红，然后金黄，然后黄色，然后就扑簌簌地掉下来。所以整座山岭看上去，有所有可以想象出来的红橙黄的色调。早上起来，窗外的树正在掉叶，一片一片像黄色的蝴蝶一样轻盈地从树梢上飘向地面，不一会儿地面就铺满了黄色的落叶，踩上去厚厚的一层，窸窸嗦嗦的，柔软而有弹性。再过几周，这些树就会全部秃掉，然后到了冬天它们就都被白雪覆盖。我知道我的描述很拙劣，我的惊喜很幼稚，不过原谅我吧，我是个南国长大的孩子，又去了新加坡，从来没感受过真正的深秋，更没领略过冬季的白雪皑皑，虽然名字中有“雪”。
好了，就不多描述了，风景怎么描述都不够好看，还是看看照片吧~~~ |
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