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Another Week
Sep. 26th, 2004 11:54 amWow! Time flies when you're having fun. Or teaching. Whichever it is.
So, we've managed to finish one full week of teaching all classes, and now it's time for holidays, again. These are the top secret, National October holidays, which no-one knew the dates of until this week.
On Wednesday, provided we manage to buy tickets, we will board a train in the evening, and arrive in Beijing on Thursday. There we will join the otherhalf's parents to romp through China in one week: Beijing, Shanghai, and Suzhou. And back to work the next Friday.
However, the tickets could prove tricky. Although there is a place in town that allegedly sells train tickets, they don't sell them to actual people (i.e., we've not heard of anyone we know purchasing tickets there). To make matters worse, it's a National Holiday, which means that half the population of China will be on the move. And unless you know someone in power at the railway station, there's no point in going there to buy tickets. It all comes down now to the power of guanxi.
So who knows what will happen.
So, we've managed to finish one full week of teaching all classes, and now it's time for holidays, again. These are the top secret, National October holidays, which no-one knew the dates of until this week.
On Wednesday, provided we manage to buy tickets, we will board a train in the evening, and arrive in Beijing on Thursday. There we will join the otherhalf's parents to romp through China in one week: Beijing, Shanghai, and Suzhou. And back to work the next Friday.
However, the tickets could prove tricky. Although there is a place in town that allegedly sells train tickets, they don't sell them to actual people (i.e., we've not heard of anyone we know purchasing tickets there). To make matters worse, it's a National Holiday, which means that half the population of China will be on the move. And unless you know someone in power at the railway station, there's no point in going there to buy tickets. It all comes down now to the power of guanxi.
So who knows what will happen.
