Go Figure !!

Although this is nothing suprising to those foreign teachers already working in China, it's all new to me. Just check this out !
I was told we have a week holiday next week (National Day holiday)....yippee...Then I was informed the next piece of news..In order for the week holiday, we all have to work this Saturday and Sunday (Go figure) I actually was told an understandable explanation (I think) from one of the teachers. The holiday falls on Wed, Thurs and Fri of next week and the weekend follows it as normal, but because many Chinese like to travel at this time to visit family etc they prefer to have this preceding weekend on the Monday and Tuesday, giving them 7 days in a row holiday (I can just imagine the outcry in Australia if they told us this..lol)..SO, OK, I think that kind of makes sense. BUT, it gets better.....So you may ask.."Sue, what classes are you teaching this weekend" Let me try and give you the run down...
This Friday (tomorrow the 26th) I will teach next Mondays classes. Saturday, I will teach next Tuesdays classes. Sunday, I will teach this Fridays (normally tomorrows) classes....BUT WAIT, THERE'S MORE! Period 4 on Friday (which is now on Sunday) will be taught in Period one on Monday (which is now on Friday (tomorrow)(I think this is something to do with a flag raising ceremony)If you say it all quickly, it sounds like a skit from "The Two Ronnies Show"
Sooooooo.. Have you got that ! It will be a miracle if I actual get to these classes on the correct day and time...
OH there is one other thing - I have been invited by the "Yichang Municipal Foreign Affairs Office" to attend an afternoon of entertainment celebrating the opening ceremony of the "9th International Yangtze Three Gorges Tourism Festival of Yichang" at "The Three Gorges Dam Project" This is on Saturday afternoon, so I casually mentioned "What about Tuesday's classes on Saturday afternoon? :-)" OHHHHH....Maybe they hadn't thought about that...I can only ponder what will happen.
But back to the ceremony..Nettie (one of the Chinese English teachers) has been invited to accompany me and we get picked up and driven, watch all the entertainment and finish the afternoon by going to a banquet meal at "International Hotel" It sounds like a great afternoon and I think that a few Yichang Foreign Experts teachers(our official title ;-) are invited, so hopefully I will meet some others like myself :-)