Today's weather: High = 21 Low = 13
Cloudy
We get a 4 day holiday, I'm basically gonna be kicking back, relaxing, and watching DVDs.
The Chinese government changed the holiday schedule in recent years to allow for more of these shorter stat holidays which coincide with traditional cultural festivals. They tend to happen one month apart. There's the tomb holiday right now, otherwise known as the "April Holiday" which is closely followed by the labor day, or the "May Holiday". Then there's the Dragon Boat or the "June Holiday"
Previously they gave one week off for the May Holiday without extra days off on these other holidays. Now the May Holiday is no longer a full week but all these little holidays add up to the same time as before. Actually I prefer it better this way.
Qingming, right now, is when the Chinese go out to the tombs in the countryside and pay their respects to the ancestors. As a result, there is always a lot of traffic on the highways and traveling is not advsised.
As usual, there are weekend workdays to make up the time, so unfortunately we had to work on a Saturday the day before. Oh well, such is life.
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