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T.I.C – “This is China” – Midnight Chinese New Year Fireworks
I was in Beijing for New Year’s Eve, December 31st, and midnight came and went without a single firework going off. I looked out my window of the 20th floor and saw one building that had a “Happy New Year” Sign down it’s side… that was it! Last year we were home in Dalian from our holidays on the Saturday after the Chinese New Year, the first set of fireworks went off at 4am, the constant noise of fireworks started at 6am, and I think at about 2:30 in the afternoon I looked at Ann and said, “I think we just went 3 minutes without hearing a firework go off”. Seconds later they started again, and I don’t think we had another 3 minute break until 1am! But, we were not treated to the visual bonanza Heather got at midnight in Beijing on Chinese New Year this year. Thanks to Heather Davis for sharing the video!
T.I.C. – “This is China” – Community
There is a Chinese school right behind ours, and their main entrance to our shared field and school is at the side of our building. It snowed last night and when I walked by their entrance there were about 15 parents and a few older students shoveling the front walk.
Many hands make light work:-) I’m sure there are a few small communities around the world where this could happen, but living in a city of 6 million and seeing this community effort makes my morning!________
*Update: There is more to this story… See the rest on my Pairadimes blog.
T.I.C. -“This is China” #1 – A small back-street in Dalian
This is less than a 5 minute walk from our school, and it’s a China you don’t see when you visit Beijing or Shanghai and do what the tourists do. A block up was a barber cutting hair on the street corner. I’ll share that photo tomorrow.
For the next few days I’ll share a number of different sights and sounds and ‘Chinglish’ phrases that help to make this a wonderful experience here. There are many hard-to-describe events and circumstances that happen here and our staff will say T.I.C. – “This is China”. I’ll use this same term to celebrate and share in the adventure our family is having here.
Just to put a little perspective on T.I.C. – one of my teachers shared her elevator ride to her apartment with a neighbor and her goat today… T.I.C.
Been there, done that…
Well, not on a highway, but we’ve had some interesting adventures while here in China. The weird thing about events like this is the lack of horn-blowing from oncoming traffic. Don’t get me wrong, there are a lot of horns going off here, but not for things like this, or for a left-turn into oncoming traffic.
Instead a horn comes from:
1) A driver passing on the left in the lane of oncoming traffic, to let the car on their right know to squeeze over as it is being passed.
2) A driver passing a slower car that’s on the right and then making a right-hand turn in front of the car just passed.
3) A driver passing two cars, on a two lane road, down the middle white line of the two lanes between the cars.
Which one of these has happened to me?
All of the above!
Daily Ink – Regret
I regret that I didn’t…
Daily Ink – Passenger-vs-Pilot
Switching is fine when you have the choice to do so…
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Intersections
When lives intersect…
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