Back to normal

Today was the first Monday after the Chinese Lunar New Year holiday week. And you could really tell: all the shops were open; there were many people burning ghost money or making food offerings in front of office buildings or shops at miday; or, more spectacularly, they lighted long firecracker strips just before opening businesses —a way of welcoming the new year and to scare away the evil spirits—; or the traffic was back to the usual levels of craziness.

Campus is still almost completely quiet, though. There are more people around, of course, but classes will begin three weeks from now. Time to enjoy the peace this represents, before all the students invade all the stairs and elevators.

As for me, I took a bus very early in the morning to go to a pub were we knew they were showing the SuperBowl. I watched it in Barcelona two years in a row, waiting until very late at night, but here is the complete opposite. The world turned upside-down. By the way, another very exciting end of the game.