Well, it had to happen sometime, but our longest winter vacation in recent memory is now officially history. Of course, our traveling around part was over about three weeks ago, but now the hanging around Chengdu during Spring Festival (aka Chinese New Year) has come to an end as well.
I still have a few blog posts from the last couple of weeks in the works that may or may not see the light of day, but no more vacation pics on the blog, I'm afraid . The weather is warming up here quite a bit in the last couple of days, so I don't have as much of an escapist need to post pictures of Anywhere Warmer Than Here. Guess you know it's time to quit when you start featuring details of cigarette packages...
In other news, our classes started today, with two sections of Oral English for Jane and one of Culture and the Media for me. The kids have been back in school since last Thursday, so we're all back to the desk jobs. Even Ysa wants to go to Kindergarten! She cried when dropping off her brothers, and has been talking about school often, so we think we may try having her go to the little kids' class three or four mornings a week.
As a final thought before disappearing totally into the world of lesson planning, here are some pictures of us sending off some fire balloons with a friend or sixty at a lantern festival we went to yesterday after eating at a great vegetarian restaurant near a Buddhist monastery in Chengdu.
Peace! - Dave
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