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No such luck. I should have known not to get my hopes up. With EF, there will always be the stupid "light days" bullshit when the school is being renovated, even though there really won't be any real work to do.
Basically, I'll be working a regular day on Monday the 26th, I'll have Tuesday and Wednesday off as usual, and then Thursday and Friday will be "light days," where we won't have any classes but we still have to go in to work. Then I'll have Saturday and Sunday off work, but then I have to work Monday and Tuesday following, even though usually I'd have Tuesday off. China has a national holiday April 2-4, the Tomb Sweeping Festival, which means the kids have to go to their public school on Saturday and Sunday to make up for the days they get off for Tomb Sweeping Festival. Messed up, I think. They should just get days off, period, and not have to make up for them on a weekend. So that screws with our schedule since it means we can't have our regular weekend classes... so yeah. Basically I get these annoying 2 day periods of time off that are split up by a few days of work, and I can't really do any real travelling or anything during these days off.
The nice thing is that I will actually have a Saturday and Sunday off next week, which means I'll have the same days off as Cinnamon. There are some one-day tour type things we could do outside of Shanghai, so I'll see what she and I can find and maybe we can at least still do something fun.
On top of this not-so-great news, I also fear I'm getting sick again. Today I got up at 10:30, talked with Rudy, and then not long afterwards just felt extremely tired again and went back to sleep for about an hour and a half. I still feel quite tired and it's only 11 PM, and my head hurts a little. I've been coughing more than usual again lately and dealing with more congestion. :/ Hopefully I can get enough rest these next couple days (as they're my days off) so I don't get any worse.
At least the weather seems to be slowly improving, though at the same time that also means it'll be mosquito season again soon! I'm having Cinnamon help me buy a mosquito net online to go around my bed, so hopefully I won't be eaten alive again like I was back in September when I first got here!
EDIT: It looks like Cinnamon might have to work on Saturday or Sunday next weekend, because of China's make-up-for-holidays silliness. :( So I might be on my own to figure out plans for that weekend. But hopefully I'll figure out something fun to do, maybe with Rachel.
Basically, I'll be working a regular day on Monday the 26th, I'll have Tuesday and Wednesday off as usual, and then Thursday and Friday will be "light days," where we won't have any classes but we still have to go in to work. Then I'll have Saturday and Sunday off work, but then I have to work Monday and Tuesday following, even though usually I'd have Tuesday off. China has a national holiday April 2-4, the Tomb Sweeping Festival, which means the kids have to go to their public school on Saturday and Sunday to make up for the days they get off for Tomb Sweeping Festival. Messed up, I think. They should just get days off, period, and not have to make up for them on a weekend. So that screws with our schedule since it means we can't have our regular weekend classes... so yeah. Basically I get these annoying 2 day periods of time off that are split up by a few days of work, and I can't really do any real travelling or anything during these days off.
The nice thing is that I will actually have a Saturday and Sunday off next week, which means I'll have the same days off as Cinnamon. There are some one-day tour type things we could do outside of Shanghai, so I'll see what she and I can find and maybe we can at least still do something fun.
On top of this not-so-great news, I also fear I'm getting sick again. Today I got up at 10:30, talked with Rudy, and then not long afterwards just felt extremely tired again and went back to sleep for about an hour and a half. I still feel quite tired and it's only 11 PM, and my head hurts a little. I've been coughing more than usual again lately and dealing with more congestion. :/ Hopefully I can get enough rest these next couple days (as they're my days off) so I don't get any worse.
At least the weather seems to be slowly improving, though at the same time that also means it'll be mosquito season again soon! I'm having Cinnamon help me buy a mosquito net online to go around my bed, so hopefully I won't be eaten alive again like I was back in September when I first got here!
EDIT: It looks like Cinnamon might have to work on Saturday or Sunday next weekend, because of China's make-up-for-holidays silliness. :( So I might be on my own to figure out plans for that weekend. But hopefully I'll figure out something fun to do, maybe with Rachel.