Home For Christmas

Some good news: I hadn’t planned it but now I’m doing it! I’ll be heading back to Ireland for Christmas.

I wasn’t home last Christmas, and it would mean a lot to my family if I came home for Christmas this year, so I bought a ticket yesterday. I got it online on the KLM website. Nifty website guys! All of my family haven’t had Christmas together since 2003! My sister was in Australia in 2004 and I was in Taiwan last Christmas! So, it will be nice to get all the family together again!

At first it seemed a strange idea to go home after such a short time (I came back to China in August). I like my life here in Dalian and am quite happy, but it will be nice to go back for Christmas. Also, I can work on my beer gut again!! I’ll be able to drink decent Guinness and have all my old favourites: rashers and sausages, Supermac’s, curried chips, ham sandwiches, nice milk, (and the list goes on!)

On another totally unrelated note, the school are moving us into new apartments soon. I got a big one on the ground floor. The apartments are newly renovated. Some good things: newer, quieter, warmer apartment and handier for classes in the East Hill. Some bad things: not as convenient for the bus, classes in the West Hill and restaurants/shops. Lets see how it works out.