Welcome 2011!

I hope you all had a great time celebrating the new year! For us here, New Year’s isn’t much of a big deal, though the students get about two days off class! But since the Chinese New Year is still to come, no one pays much attention to the solar calendar new year as it is celebrated in so many other places in the world. So, instead of having lots of parties and students being out all night, New Year’s Eve is pretty much a day like every other day. Though some of my colleagues attempted to shoot off fireworks at midnight. Other than that it was a quiet night. Except that one of my neighbors’ door was broken and he couldn’t get into his apartment by the time I got back from my get-together with friends last night. And it was the workers coming to fix it which woke me up sometimes after eight this morning. So, you see, New Year’s here is basically just like any other day!

Happy New Year, then!