My Visitor

Hellooooooo friends! Today is my last day of work before the Spring Festival! Everyone else is working until the 28th, but I took the next week off because Ayman will be here! I am so excited for that, I can't really write much because that would be boring for you all! He is coming on the 25th in the morning and I'm going to stay in GZ all weekend and then pick him up at the train station on Tuesday!!! sljkfafjsdlkfnalkfpe yayyy! On the 28th him and I are going to a huge company dinner at the only five star hotel we have around here to celebrate the Chinese New Year with people from my division. Supposedly there will be a raffle for about 3,000Yuan, which is a little over $500. Boy would I like to win that! I'm going to wear my lucky bracelets that night. hehehe. During this dinner, we also have performances and of course I have to dance in front of everyone in my company. Each division has to come up with a show. It's all for fun but I'll be the only foreigner there... actually no, because Ayman will be there!!! Still, embarrassing! I have to come up with a dance, which I already have a while ago, to that "Sorry, Sorry" song! Tonight I am supposed to teach it to everyone and practice some new Chinese song I will also have to learn. Don't worry, pictures will be posted to facebook.

I told myself I wouldn't really travel over the holidays, but since Ayman will be coming we are going to Hong Kong (yayyyyyy), Macau, Shenzhen, obviously we'll tour Guangzhou and then Hainan! [Side note: Hainan is the southernmost province in China and it is an island. Ayman and I will be going to the southernmost city and getting our tan on. The weather is supposed to be around 70 degrees F in February] I am pretty excited to go to Hainan because I haven't been and it's supposed to be like the Chinese Hawaii... which I don't believe, but nonetheless I have some great plans for us! We already booked our hostels, but we have yet to book train tickets. I hope the train to HK will not be sold out (there are like 15 in a day so I think we should be fine). We decided to take the train from GZ to Sanya (Hainan) because although it ends up being more expensive than a plane, we will not arrive at some weird middle of the night hour, and we won't have to pay for a hostel the night we would have arrived (if we took a plane). We're crossing our fingers that we can get a train (there are three from GZ so hopefully we can if worst come to worst, stand on one). I think if we were to stand though, him and I would just take a plane! It's going to be amazing because we haven't seen each other in over 10 months and we'll be in one of my favorite cities: Hong Kong, which is super romantic and so Ayman and I. We're both super into fashion, city trends, big cities, culture, going out. Perfecto! Hong Kong IS the place to be at our age. Actually, we will be in HK on the day of the Chinese New Year so I'm excited to see how people will be celebrating. The only bad thing about traveling during this time is: Prices, crowds, over-crowding. The hostels are much more expensive, tickets are much more difficult to get (as we saw with Ayman who stood in line for 4 hours only to get standing tickets) AND crowds will be disastrous in HK and Macau I think. I hope a lot of people will go back to their homes in small cities to be with their families so that we can travel in peace. Also, let's hope I get super tan in Hainan!!!