It’s been a crazy week, with lots of work, even more preparations and a weekend full of Christmas parties. Lots of memories to keep, so make sure you check out today’s Monday Highlight for another dose of Christmas Cheer! Today, I’m featuring Julie Billingsley’s “Better Not Pout” …

Back to Normal

The holidays are over and this means, everything goes right back to normal. Especially here in China, where Christmas isn’t much of a big holiday at all. The stores never close, constructions never end, and if it wasn’t a weekend, classes would have just continued as normal.

Now, with the weekend, we got at least the feeling of a holiday and for me, this has been the best Christmas I had since coming to China. Three days packed with celebrations – there isn’t much time to miss family and friends back home. Now, I’m just tired and glad that the winter holiday has already begun for me. So I get to wind down and relax a little and hopefully spend some extra time with my students.