May?... really?

First off, I can not believe that it is May already! The month of April absolutely flew. I know I say this about all months, and life in general..but I honestly do not know where the month of April went. April Fool's day was here, and now its May 2nd. This actually scares me about how fast life can go. I seems that the older you get the faster it goes. One of my goals for the year 2012 was to start living in the moment, because I am terrible at it. I am a future thinker and am always thinking in the future. To me right now, it is already July. I am slowly changing this about myself, and the realization of how fast the month of April went has really hit me that I need to start living in the moment more often.
On another note, I haven't updated my blog since our field trip to Hong Kong which was two weeks ago. I haven't updated for so long because I have been busy with school (was teaching all subjects) and I was extremely sick last week. I am finally back to feeling like myself and I have energy! I spent most of last week in the washroom or laying on my bed watching movies/tv shows (yes I finished two seasons of Vampire Diaries, a show I swore I would never watch and am now addicted) I am still not sure what I got sick with. At first I thought it was food poisoning because I had all the symptoms of food poisoning, but after I heard about a few kids getting the same sickness and a few people on the staff, I ruled out the food poisoning and realized I had some kind of crazy Chinese flu. All I know is that I have never in my life been that sick.. even though it only lasted 3 days and then came back for a night or so, I had no energy at all last week, barely ate anything, was very dehydrated and had nothing left in my system. NOT FUN!
Thank God for feeling better though because I had a great weekend. In China this weekend was May Holiday, or they also call is Labour Day Holiday. It is a holiday for people to rest, which made sense to me until I saw that all stores were open, taxis were running, thousands of people are still on the streets and life is going on like any other day in China, so I am not really sure where or if people were resting, but either way I got 2 days off from teaching so I wasn't complaining!
Saturday, Kate and I ventured to Daphen Village which was about a hour long subway ride away. It is a little village with alleys full of paintings. Every colour, every kind, original and printed paintings. It was totally not what I expected though. I got a few paintings for really cheap! I love them!
On Monday, 9 of us girls went to Evergreen Resort, which is a gem in the middle of Shenzhen. It was about 10 minutes away from our hotel, but felt like it was another world away! It was a very neat resort made into the middle of a forest. There were restaurants, pools, tree houses to stay in, butterfly sanctuaries, pottery making stations, and so much more! It was good to get away for the night and stay somewhere! The first day we were there the pool was still closed because pools do not open in Shenzhen until May 1st (even though its already 100 degrees in April). So we decided to get our bikinies on and lay beside the pool that we weren't allowed to swim in. The guard was watching us the whole time, but we all kept pushing the boundaries and eventually we found ourselves sitting in the water (technically we weren't swimming, right?) The guard did seem to mind, but he didn't really say anything, im guessing because we are foreigners. Oh, also, while we laid by the pool in our bikinis many chinese people including women, decided to stand outside the pool and stare at us. We kept saying that it felt like we were in a zoo, so then we started acting like animals. Why not give them a show right? Hhahaha it was hilarious! its not odd to look to your left or right and someone is either staring at you or taking a picture of you. I don't really mind, but when I am laying in a bikini, its a bit different! We went out for some Indian food and then came back to the resort and played a bunch of board games including one of my favourites, Things! I think we might have got to know each other a lot more than we expected through that game! Overall, the Holiday was a great experience and really relaxing!