Passover

For our first passover in Shanghai and our first Passover as a married couple Danny and I made a little seder at home for the first night. Passover is a holiday I've always done at my parents' house, I never made a seder before. It was very last minute, we started planning when I got home from work. It took us about three hours to get ready including buying groceries. We didn't have a Haggadah so we downloaded one from the internet. We couldn't find matzah but we found some corn crackers that tasted like cardboard. I made charoset, instant matzah ball soup, and a makeshift seder plate. I have such a pretty one in storage at home... oh well. The only candles in our house were birthday candles so we lit a P candle for Passover instead of the normal holiday candles. We didn't have time to cook so we ordered in. It was the laziest least traditional seder I ever went to and the whole thing took an hour. It was kind of fun though.


























For the second night we went to a seder from the Liberal Jews group which I slightly helped with organizing. Mostly Arie planned the whole thing and the restaurant, Haya's, took care of all the food including the matzah. I don't think it was very strictly kosher but nobody really cared. There were about 70 people including 14 kids. We had all the traditional foods and a cantor came in from Hong Kong to lead it. It was a pretty nice event. I ended up sitting next to a woman who was an art teacher, kind of random. I'm going to try to help more with planning other events. Being in a foreign country tends to make me want to get closer to traditions I grew up with.