Well its almost here, our long awaited and anticipated exodus to the wonderful land of Thai!! Words can't express how much we are looking forward to our exodus on the 16th of January. We have six full days of instruction left, one exam week, a few exams to mark, final grades to submit, water, gas and power to turn off, a suitcase to pack and then we are gone... and we'll be gone in a flash. We're going to take the bullet train to Beijing, 300+ km/h (or faster) of steel and tracks shooting us straight to Beijing in a mere 50 odd minutes! There we'll spend the evening and the following morning before heading off to the airport, where the friendly customer service representatives at Thai Air will greet us and the warmer offerings of Thailand await!
We had a great christmas. Different to say the least, but great. We talked with family, had a christmas steak and a christmas lasagna, enjoyed a wonderful brunch, slept, read, talked with more family and then went back to work, odd but never-the-less true.
For new year's we're going to go to Tianjin, stay in a nice hotel, with a nice pool, nice amenities and ring in the new year before taking a quick trip to Chengdu to visit some friends, get a quick reprieve and gain more frequent flier miles!!
Unfortunately the lack of blogging has been representative of our non-exciting past few weeks. This morning in the elevator on the way down to our bikes, I mentioned to Christina that I feel as if all we do is work, get ready for work, are at work, or think about work. She agreed, chuckled to herself and stated that: "Back in Canada it didn't really feel like this." We shrugged our shoulders, thought of the financial gain our Asian endeavor is providing, and rode back to the school for another day in the office.
Here's to hoping that the New Year provides us with some more tales with which we can regale the blogosphere.
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