Last night, Nan, and some of her fellow students, invited me to join them for dinner at Xiao Zhou village. The occasion was mid-autumn festival, an evening when most Chinese get together with their families. In the village, children were walking around with paper lanterns. Students dressed up in costumes (cos-play according to my students) heading to a party. Fire-crackers were constantly being set off, and my friends brought huge paper lanterns (like the south american globos) on which we all wrote wishes before releasing them above the river. It was a clear night, and the moon was full and bright. On release our lanterns rapidly made their way over the motorway overpass nearby, reaching a great height within less than 30 seconds.