Corn Maze10/24/2019 6/2019 Corn Maze
Through this event, I learned about the American Fall Festival, which is super fun and interesting in my opinion. Since Connecticut is in the New England area, the leaves turn red, yellow, and orange during fall, so there’s a lot of representation of these colors in Lyman Orchards, especially orange- color of pumpkins. It looked pretty to me because there’s not a lot of colors during fall in the part of China I lived in. Also, it was really interesting to see how apples were widely used in food and dessert. I’ve never had apple cider in China but after I tasted it here, it became my favorite drink. I also was intrigued by the “cider dog” on the food menu. However, I was disappointed when I found out that it tasted the same as a regular hot dog. Apple picking in Lyman Orchards seemed cool too as it's a fun experience to pick the fruits you eat directly from trees. I liked how there were so many families that came to the orchard, which let me learn that Fall Festival is a vibrant festival that brings families together to celebrate the harvest. The interaction with American students was good as well. Our team worked together and became the first group to get out of the maze. The American students in my group also showed Chinese students different desserts that people eat during fall, such as apple fritters, apple butter and honey sticks. Though they didn’t come to corn maze a lot, they were still very familiar with activities like apple picking. After the event, my host family picked me up and we bought pumpkins in a store nearby. They noticed that a lot of people put pumpkins in front of their house, so we are doing it this year. We will carve the pumpkins into Halloween faces and put candles inside them. We also got some spaghetti squashes as food too. In general, I think fall festival is happy festival that connects food and family together.
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