11 Apr 2007
May Day
Posted by: Squareface In: Campus Life| Fudan| Taking in; on; and to Shanghai (or China in general)
I (supposedly) enjoy a one-week break every May due to China’s national holiday to celebrate Labour Day. The formula to be able to have a 7-day holiday works such that we have to replace certain days on the weekend before the break so that we can have 7 consecutive days of holiday.
So, the 7-day holiday is set to be from 1-7 May (Tuesday - the following Monday). 1-3 May are the designated public holidays, and so we have to make up for the loss of precious work/study time on 4 May (Friday) as well as 7 May (Monday), which will be dutifully compensated on 28 April (Saturday) and 29 April (Sunday). In a nutshell, on the last weekend of April, I will have a Friday, Friday (actually Saturday), Monday (actually Sunday), Monday.
Though I won’t be here after the second Friday (Saturday) because I hope I’ll be meeting Sam in Hong Kong by then. Heh.
The notice is official, so I hope there won’t be any surprises (a euphemism for last-minute amendments).
