I haven't written anything on my blog lately, partly cause not that much has been happening but I've also fallen out of the habit so I will try to post a little more in the future.
It's currently the middle of Chinese New Year (called Spring Festival in China). This is one of the times of year where the Chinese get a whole week off that they usually use to visit their families. The news said they were expecting upwards of 3 billion trips (planes, trains, cars and buses) over this period and also explains why I'm not in the US. The tickets were going to cost me way too much so I ended up staying home.
The other thing about CNY are the fireworks. There was a sign in the lefts in the building saying that they are only permitted to let off fireworks between 7am and 12am (only 19 hours a day!) but they broke that in the first day!
As of Sunday, they started just after 7am and went until a bit after 3am the next morning, then started again around 8am or so. They have calmed down a little now (so they're not going constantly) but in the evenings it's still pretty regular. I'm not a huge fan of fireworks, probably even less of a fan now, but they have been nice to watch. I took a video at about 10:30pm the other night (people with no bandwidth like grandparents may not want to watch at home :)
It was also my birthday the other day which was nice. There are some people here that it was nice to see (hi Adam and Anita!!) but I was definitely missing Jane and everyone back in Aus. Usually we have a nice big birthday party with everyone who's around and I really missed that this year.
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