Golden Week Cancelled, along with my project?

The Guangdong Modern Dance Festival, where I was going to be spending a lot of my time this spring, has been postponed from early May until July. The festival had been planned for the May Day Golden Week, a Chinese national holiday, but the government has changed the May holiday to a one-day affair, with the rest of the holiday days redistributed to include Tomb-Sweeping Day, the Dragon-Boat Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival. That's a net gain of one holiday, if you weren't counting.

CNN says the growing Chinese economic prosperity has made holiday travel extremely difficult. Workers can only take vacation during the national holidays, so everyone is on the move at once. (Like Thanksgiving-eve, every vacation!) The government is considering moving to a flexible holiday system. I'll be interested to hear what professionals at museums and historic sites have to say about these changes, which would presumably allow for a more steady stream of visitors.

I have no idea yet what this will mean for my practicum, so I'm trying to stay as flexible as possible, myself.

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Once, in the middle of a winter night, a car exploded in the yard next to mine...

A man strolled back and forth from his house with a bucket until the fire department came. I'm going to miss Providence.