Our ESOL students enjoyed a meal at a local Chinese restaurant in Saffron Walden to celebrate Chinese New Year. The most important festivity in the Chinese calendar, ‘spring festival’ starts with the new moon on the first day of the New Year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. Our students followed tradition by gathering together, along with other boarders and friends, to share a large meal and enjoy each others company.
Each year has its own corresponding animal from the Chinese Zodiac, a cycle of 12 animals, and Chinese New Year 2012 celebrates the year of the Dragon.
Kung Hei Fat Choy!