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John Currin

Jan 18

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Doing the vacuuming

Today is known as small new year, which is a week before Big New Year or Spring Festival. Yesterday and today was spent doing a spring clean, perhaps that is where the words originated, it is a tradition thousands of years old. so I was cleaning windows and vacuuming and dusting etc. We also visited the graves of Mei’s father and mother, another tradition which included burning lots of paper money.

It is relatively warm today, around 4 or 5c which is a lot warmer then –23c so it is quite pleasant.

We have a ‘wind down week’ next week as every one is in holiday mood, we go to Shenyang on Tuesday for a concert with all the other schools, so that's a bit of fun, then Mei’s son arrives from Beijing on Thursday.

The fireworks have started already and will happen for the next couple of weeks or more, day and night.

Went walking on the lake before and it is always a strange sensation wandering around on the ice and looking at the water underneath. The ice seemed to be about a foot thick so it is pretty safe, just feels eerie.