Chinese New Year is celebrated here because the Chinese community is quite big also. So we end up with a three-day weekend, which is unusual especially with the Friday and Sunday weekends here. Monday was declared a holiday because of CNY and since the school owners are Chinese, they extended this for another day so school is also off until Tuesday.

I am thankful we now have a better and more reliable internet connection so I work at home better and we can waste time browsing through social network sites, reading news, looking at online floral arrangements, downloading movies and our favorite tv shows, and many more. We also get to video chat more with families back home. It will be a while until we get a long break such as this again and we plan to make the most out of it.