A Day Late, But It's Not My Fault

 ***NOTE: THIS IS MY JANUARY 4TH POST, BUT DUE TO INTERNET CONNECTIVITY ISSUES I'VE BEEN HAVING, I COULDN'T GET THIS UP ONLINE IN TIME FOR THE BLOGGER.COM ISSUED  JANUARY 4 TIME STAMP. DOH!***

 

Date: January 4, 2015

Mood: Tired

Weather: Cool and cloudy

Listening to: Alive by Gravity Kills

Reading: Dorothy Parker Drank Here by Ellen Meister

I haven't quite figured out the point of the holiday scheduling this school does. Anytime there is time off school for a holiday or some event during the M-F week the school almost always makes all the students and teachers come back for classes the following Sunday. That means a 6 day school week. And they say it's so the students can make up their classes, but there is undoubtedly always one day's worth of classes that slips through the cracks. So what method is used to determine the more important day of classes?

So following the New Year's holiday of Thursday/Friday off school, class is back in session today. I don't know if it was because we had classes or just because it was a long weekend and we spent part in HK, but today just hasn't felt like Sunday. Even some of the students were off because I had one ask why we weren't in the computer lab for our Monday lessons. The answer was, of course, because it was Sunday and we were having Friday's class period.

Dh and I took the bus, after school, down the road a few miles to the wet market and grocery store to pick up a few things. Usually Sunday the buses and shops are packed, yet today they weren't. I really do think that despite the calendar new year not being as big a deal here as February's Chinese New Year that this holiday weekend threw lots of people off. lol

Was excited this evening to discover that the Udon noodles dh and I have been looking all over for are indeed available here in our town. We looked at several shops last week, including Walmart, but were unsuccessful in finding any so ended up buying a bunch in HK over the weekend to bring back. Will be nice to have one less thing to have to shop for in and carry back from Hong Kong. Now if they'd just start offering a bigger selection of cheeses locally! (They do have cheese; however, the selection is very basic here in our town. There are other shops around China that offer a larger selection also though, just have to travel to find it. Which isn't really any different than just shopping for it in HK when we are there.)

Enjoyed a Western dinner tonight. Several months back dh picked up a couple of jars of alfredo sauce when he was in HK and he'd had them stashed ever since. Tonight we decided to live life on the edge and make alfredo noodles with hamburger, mushrooms, and onions. Mmm It turned out really yummy.