-Qingming Jie -Tomb Sweeping Festival

Sometime between this wknd and Monday and Tuesday its Qingming Jie Tomb Sweeping Day, a day to honour those that have passed by visiting grave sites and/or burning everything from paper money to paper cars on their graves (or, on the street if you dont make it to the graveyard). Unfortunately, I dont get this holiday off, so while the rest of China are burning paper money/going shopping, Ill be in the office, working away. I really dislike these kinds of holidays, because there are different rules for everyone, making it kind of hard to get something done: some have to work this wknd in order to get Monday and Tuesday off. Some dont work this wknd but still get Monday and Tuesday off. I dont have to work this wknd (who wants to work on the wknd anyway? What a silly rule?!) and I dont get Monday and Tuesdays off. And then some seem to be working on Monday, only to have Tuesday and Wednesday off?!

Ah, trying to get my head around this system is pointless. On top of that there are so many things to keep in mind, like:

-Special opening hours for the gym
-Special opening hours for the yoga club
-No lunch specials in restaurants on Monday and Tuseday (and Wednesday? Not sure!)
-Some places might be closed
-Loads of people in the shops (typical, as I really need to do some shopping)
and so on.

This is also a time when buying things like train tickets/flight tickets gets really hard, so dont even try to go there.

Oh, and dont forget to honour those who passed away! Thats what this circus is all about.

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