The Dragon Boat Festival is just around the corner. Yesterday mother dragged to the street buying 1 kilogram of glutinous rice and a half kilogram of dates specially for son. He'll come home tomorrow afternoon because the College Entrance Examination will be held at his school. So mother decided to make rice dumplings ahead of schedule. Son likes to eat the zongzi cooked by mother. This evening I saw her soak half the rice in water. Tomorrow she'll continue to soak reed leaves and iris leaves as wrappings and to boil some dates as stuffing with the rice. I told son to go straight to mother's after he gets off the bus home for both elder sister and me are out then.