One thing I do not fully understand here in China is working weekends. Now yes, of course there is a need for overtime every once in a while and working a Saturday or a Sunday may be necessary. However, here in China, the government mandates certain Saturdays and Sundays as working days to make up for days they get off during the week as Holiday. For instance, we have recently had 2 holidays: Mid-Autumn Festival and China National Holiday. The first was technically a 3 day holiday - Thursday, Friday and Saturday - as Sunday was then a working day. I realize that this holiday is very much linked to the moon, so perhaps they cannot help when the holiday falls. Then, the National Holiday was Oct 1 - Oct 7 (started on a Tuesday, ended on a Monday). In order to make up for the 5 working days we had off, everyone was required to work the Sunday prior to the start of the holiday and then the Saturday after the holiday. Even though the government does this so people have time to travel to their hometowns to see their families (and some families live quite far away), it is still hard to understand why the holiday wasn't just a few days shorter so we could still have our weekend ...
Oh well, in order to make up for me working this Saturday, Ryan & Ava went to a park and then visited me at work for lunch! It was so good to see them and I think all of my coworkers enjoyed having Ava run around the cafeteria! We even found some balloons for her!
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