Today I spent the afternoon at a factory we work with, reviewing new items in production and approving a few things on-site to speed the production process along. I was amazed at how busy the factory is, with all production lines going full force.
A ton of the products being made in this factory right now are items you'll see on shelves in about a month and a half - goods for Halloween! I would love to go into more detail, but I'm afraid it would be borderline unethical, so I'll leave it to your imagination.
It did get me thinking though about how different our fall will be this year. It's hot as hades outside right now, kind of like Atlanta - in the 90's - but with higher humidity. I'm not really sure when it will cool down or what the fall and winter seasons will be like here.
I've been receiving a lot of emails lately from my favorite brands about "Back to School" shopping, which is funny because the kids here in China are still in full blown summer mode. They will start back to school in mid September.
I'm told that the next big holiday we'll celebrate here is Mooncake Festival in September (no Labor Day here). I saw a pretty red box in a hotel adjacent to our building (we often walk through a type of shared lobby to get to restaurants for lunch) and I asked my coworker about it. Turns out it contains a mooncake, and the hotel is already offering them for sale. I have no idea what a mooncake is, and all I can picture right now is a bunch of Asians enjoying marshmellowy moonpies together.
Hopefully between now and the Mooncake Festival I can figure out how to post pictures to this blog so we can share our mooncake celebration with friends and family across the states.
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