Last week we had a four day weekend, because the students get a few days every month to go home. We went to Chongqing to see our friend Ya Ya and to spend New Year’s Eve in a big city.
On New Year’s Eve we had Hot Pot for dinner with Ya Ya. After dinner, Joel and I went into the city to wait for midnight. When we got into the city there were hundreds of police blocking off one big area, around a clock tower. Apparently all the Chinese people went there to hear the clock strike at twelve o’ clock – but there wasn’t even going to be any fireworks! Inside the blocked off area was Starbucks, where we wanted to be. After waiting a long time and even asking the police to let us in, we decided to leave and go somewhere else. We couldn’t find another Starbucks close by so we caught a taxi back to our hotel. When the clock turned over to twelve o’ clock, we were in the taxi only a minute away from our stop.
On Saturday, Ya Ya and a few of his friends took us to see “Chongqing Old City”. There’s a big old Palace, with a museum area inside showing many old artefacts, skeletons etc. from around Chongqing.
