I have the #3 assignment tonight with a 12-13 year old girl. I didn't want to do the typical horoscope-zodiac chart subject so we're talking about fortune cookies.
That's a cool spin on it...preview?
It's a stretch, but I tie it together...From Wikipedia: Although fortune cookies are undoubtedly a modern invention, a legend has been developed and circulated to explain their origins. According to this legend, in the 14th century, when the Mongols ruled China, a revolutionary named Chu Yuan Chang planned an uprising against them. He used mooncakes to pass along the date of the uprising to the Chinese by replacing the yolk in the center of the mooncake with the message written on rice paper. The Mongols did not care for the yolks, so the plan went on successfully and the Ming Dynasty began. It is claimed that the Moon Festival celebrates this with the tradition of giving mooncakes with messages inside. Immigrant Chinese railroad workers, without the ingredients to make regular mooncakes, made biscuits instead. It is these biscuits that may have later inspired fortune cookies.
don't take my fortune cookies away from me!!! they really tell MY future, and I even do the lotto with my lucky numbers!!! aww jeeezzz. :(
haha
nnice Wish I could hear it
good call on that. I want the number 4 for this week ... two instruction talks in 5 minutes? I'm down for that ANYTIME>
this reminds me of a bro in my hall who said "disney movies are evil. throw them away when you get home." one kid was like "nooo!"
aw man don't say that! we have more than one person like that in our congregation and they drive all the parents crazy.