Celebrating lunar New Year

Lunar New Year is just around the corner here in South Korea. In fact, the rest of the week is a public holiday starting tomorrow and it goes to the weekend.(Yay) As every year, I feel somewhat awkward because we already started the New year on January first, having counted down the last moments into the New Year's and doing some kind of ritual like ringing out the historic big bell in the urban area of Seoul. Then one and a half months later, we again celebrate another New Year's and exchange greetings and so on. I know it is because of the calendars, which one you follow, yet I do feel awkward around this time of the year.

Anyhow my mom and I went grocery shopping for this big holiday. We chose a nearby public market to go to instead of a big chain mart. Chain markets are convenient and show off more modernized displays of products and organization. But we chose to venture the traditional public market this year for a change. It was raining this afternoon, yet also windy and chilly a little bit. It looked like it was going to snow at any moment. I thought that our shopping excursion could not meet the expectations but my mom didn't seem to be dwelling too much on that. She just looked excited to go, talking a lot about my past grandmother and her cooking, busy sceneries of the market in the olden days and so on.

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Good entry! Very good writing. I hope you had a good meal & a nice time with your mother!