Every year for the National Holiday in China, everyone will get about 3 days off work. This year everyone will have an 8 day Holiday from the 1st October – 8th October.

Our school is also having an 8 day holiday, but ours is from 30th September (today) until 7th October, & we then start school/teaching again on the 8th.

When 6, 000 kids leave the school in one morning to make the trip home, it can get pretty hectic. This morning the students all had one morning class before they left at 8:50 am. Even before their classes had finished, there was already a traffic jam outside – perhaps all the locals in town were leaving too.

We might possibly go to Chengdu for the holiday, at this stage, we haven’t decided yet. If we do go, we will only go for a 3 day break, to stock up on winter clothes.

Plus we can’t leave Charlie alone too long. Heh.