The chinese new year has come and gone. It came with a bang and left with about a billion more. The new year celebration pretty much shut down the whole country. Everyone gets the week off. Thats pretty crazy to do in most places, here its down right nuts. The average person in this area works 10-14 hours a day in a factory. then you go and give them all this free time and they go nuts. Well as nuts as the average repressed person around here can.
The city must have spent a small fortune to decorate the city. EVERY street light has red lanterns hanging from it, and when you consider the fact that there could be a million street lights thats a lot of lanterns to make hang and then take down. there are also decorations put up every where. as seen by the photos. once that is done the fireworks start. They did not stop till today ( 3 days later) and that is not an exaggeration. i could look out my window and see explosions five inches from it for 3 days straight.
the only bad thing was that i could not find a fireworks stand or anywhere to buy them. some how a billion rockets were sold with out my knowledge. I am pissed.
HAPPY YEAR OF THE PIG. (westerners changed it to the boar cause they dont want to be called a pig)
