new year’s greetings

Whoa, so i hadn’t even realized when leaving for the teacher’s party (which ended up being in Longgang District, an almost two hour drive across Shenzhen) that it was December 31st! So I may have missed my own New Year’s (though details of how that went down soon to come), but even though I have only now just returned at almost 3 o’clock Friday afternoon on the first of January, December 31st still has one hour to go for everyone in the Pacific Time Zone, so:

Happy New Year!