Holiday in China

During my Christmas holiday I went to two places in China, Beijing (like I always do) and Hainan Island (like I never did). I left Sweden on the 17th of December and missed school that day. This time I went to China with my dad and my brother, my mom left to China a week earlier. Usually the plane flies directly from Copenhagen to Beijing, but it was cheaper to fly from Copenhagen to Paris then to Beijing so that was how I got to Beijing. When I got there first I went to my dad’s father’s house, my step grandmother was not in Beijing, she went back to her hometown to visit her mother. My mom went to my grandfather’s house to see me on the day I arrived.
The next day I went to my mom’s parent’s house, it takes about an hour to get from my grandparent’s house to my other grandparent’s house. I met my grandparents and my auntie and uncles and my cousin was there too. That evening we had a HUGE family dinner. The next day I was going to Hainan Island for 6 days!

The place we went to on Hainan Island was Sanya. We arrived late in the evening. The city looked beautiful with all the lights and buildings from above, i was really excited. We stayed at a hotel 500 meters away from the BEACH!!! the only things i didnt like about the hotel was that the swimming pool had no water in it and the beds were as hard as wood, so basically it was like sleeping on the ground. The next day i went swimming in the sea, it was 25-30 degrees at noon so i didnt have to worry about the sea being cold. It wasnt cold, but it was really salty! Everytime I accidently get sea water in my mouth i choke. The water wasn't clear either, but there was countless of amazing shells on the beach. I collected alot of the nice ones. The next few days we went to huge parks, famous places, and alot of beaches! Before i came back i took some sand from two different beaches, the sand was very different too! Hainan was a very fun place to stay for Christmas and New Year, on those days there was alot of fireworks by the beach and alot of people performing dances, singing, talents etc.

Back in Beijing, i went visiting both grandparents traveling back and forth. I made a list in my head of the things i wanted to in Beijing. This is my list: 1) to go sled skating 2)go shopping 3)visit my grandparents old house 4)see the bird nest stadium and the swimming complex 5)go to the zoo. The things i have done on my list are numbers 1(i went 2 times!), 2, 4 (but i only got to see them from the outside), 5. Ofcourse there was so much more i wanted to do but we didnt have that much time and my parents were busy sometimes.

On the 7th of January i came back to Sweden, the next day we started school again. :p

Xinyu :)