Self Portrait
New Years Eve 2009
I can’t believe its 2009, wasn’t it just 1999? Wasn’t I living in Rome, Italy (10 years ago Sept.)? Now I am living in Shanghai, China. WOW. It’s quite a difference; I miss the food in Italy! And the weather and the people, and the churches and and and…..ok that’s just me reminiscing; I am loving our new adventure.
We went to a concert on New Year’s Eve here in our apartment complex. There is a very nice theater here in our complex, a short 2 minute walk up some stairs and then an escalator and bang your there! The theater holds about 1,000 people as far as I could tell. The theater was very cozy and had great acoustics. The concert was fusion music with Chinese instruments performed by a group called MOON. I was very interesting and actually quite good, I really enjoyed about 75% of the music, the other 25% sounded as if someone was skinning a cat alive – screech screech screech on one of the funny one string violin’ish’ type instruments. But overall very enjoyable and I am so glad we went.
We were home by 9:45p, concert started at 7:30p and turned out the lights at 11:00p. I was awakened by some fireworks at midnight and got out of bed to check them out. Since we are on the 28th floor I figured I would be able to see something. Well, I saw about 3 parks across Shanghai (the small section I can see out my window) having their own little fireworks celebration. They shot them up about 6 or 10 stories high and it was very nice to see. I watched for about 3 minutes and then went back to bed.
I am excited to see this New Year and am looking forward to the coming months on all that we are going to see and learn.
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