ghost like town...

spring festival: a chinese new year holiday, equivalent to our christmas/winter break; a time when people leave their jobs/cities/schools and journey back to their hometowns to spend time with their families.

since i'm journeying back to america during this holiday- my few fellow teammates and i are stranded in a ghost-like town- well at least on our campus it is! I'd say 90% of the stores/restaurants/vendors are closed and left to go home for the holidays... by the end of next week I wouldn't be surprised if they were all closed. i've done the calculations and this is the formula i've created:

spring festival madness + students going home + local vendors/restaurant owners going home

=

empty campus/b-ball courts + no food from vendors/restaurant + expanding my cooking skills

hm. all alone.. that's a strange thing in china!... the back gate street that use to be alive.. haha














before from earlier this semester- this is a not-so-populated day either, i think there was a tournament going on or something too.. you see the clothes hanging from the dorms too?














now... not a soul (occasionally maybe 3 random people playing) and no clothes hanging from the dormitories.. :(














it's a little lonely and quiet sometimes but a change of the campus and a challenge to my team to find out how to feed ourselves. :) but i know he's faithful and provides! he's also blessed us with MUCH warmer weather this past week.. we're in the 50's almost 60's degrees now!