A little bit of DaJia madness

Last weekend (29th and 30th of March) there was a festival of some sort in DaJia. We thought it was the buildup to the Mazu Festival, where Mazu, the Chinese goddess of the sea, takes worshipers on an annual pilgrimage to the south of the island. We woke up to loud music and more fireworks than usual and when we looked out the window, this is what we saw.

Pimped up rides downstairs

I know what you did last summer! You pimped your ride!

Interesting

Hellraiser. Note the Momo shop in the background!!

Talking about Momo, it is a toiletries/pharmacy store which is about 40m from us as the crow flies. We live above it and they play the most annoying song over and over and over again!! It's about 30s long and they seem to have it on repeat! I found myself humming it in one if my classes.

Other than the captain South Africa on the car...what the!!?

This is usually the street leading past the temple

I think this is one of Mazu's general friends, they were demons she defeated

The other general/demon

Dancing and fireworks are the order of the day!

So it turns out that this didn't have much to do with the Mazu festival. They just had some puppet shows and other performances on the week before the festival. I wish I could read Chinese, because a lot of information is missing and it's not always possible to ask someone.

And even then, when you ask a Chinese speaking teacher, you aren't sure if you got the correct answer or if they understood your question. Very frustrating! 

Renalda and I will start Chinese lessons soon, but we are using Anki to learn vocab, both spoken and written at the moment.

Fruit salad and yoghurt. Without a fridge the leftover watermelon went bad :(

Renalda felt my pain regarding something fresh and this is what we made! A fantastic fruit salad with drinking yoghurt. Not quite double cream greek, but it was awesome!

The view from our apartment...not exactly beautiful, but it's home

This is the view of the little town of DaJia from our bedroom window. Not so little really, a lot going on with a small town feel.

Fried naan bread thingy

Interesting pancakes, that reminded us of naan bread, really yummy, with lots of oil!

Too much fried food!! ;)

Supper, fried chicken, fish balls and pancake naan...scrumptious! I promise we do eat veggies!