Planing for the National Holiday
The Chinese don’t have lots of leasure time. I think normally each year 10 days vacation tops. Besides some people here work 6 or even 7 days a week. One thing which is really cool here though is that there are two 1-week holidays a year. One is the Chinese Newyears, around February or March, depending on the lunar calendar and the National Holiday in Oktober. So also for me that means a whole week off. So right now we are making some plans were to go that week. Some friends are taking a 7 day hiking trip in Xinjiang (the most western province of China, about 4000 km west of Shanghai) but it is kinda expensive. If I had the money I would definitely go though. Here are some pictures of the beatiful landscape there: Gallery 1, Gallery 2. But since our money is not enough we cannot go 
Real bummer!
Instead we might go to Henan and Shaanxi Province to visit the famous Shaolin Temple and the Teracotta Army and much more.
Thats all for today, tomorrow I have to be at work again.
