New years eve the chinese way - sun 25th jan

Earlier on the day we had been given a card with the address where the new years party would be held, so we could show it to the taxi. He still brought us to the wrong place so we couldn’t follow the map..
For the bar name we had just been told that it would say Heineken on the outside. And the place we were dropped of did have Heineken on the outside, but when we went inside there were no people there, no one we knew anyway. So we tried the next door and the next door, 3 bars with Heineken on top of, still not the right place. We met some of the earlier participants though who called Hannah for us so we could get directions. Finally we did find it.
It was a bar just big enough to hold us all without us feeling like there was too much/little space to move around on. And there was free drinks until 1, but they ran out around 12 something. But it was great, and we had a lot of fun. Just sitting and talking to people and having fun with the Chinese karaoke!
At 12 we went outside for the fireworks and it was brilliant! They just went nuts, BAM! BUM! All the time, almost enough to make you deaf, apparently the Chinese likes it when it makes a lot of noise.. And it just kept going, that was the oddest part, it made it so intense. It went on and on and on with the same amount of lights and noise as at 12. In Denmark you go out, fire of a few things for 15 min and then you go back in again. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to find new years eve fireworks as special anymore. The Chinese way just knocks you of your feet! In the end it was like a fog had settle over the area because of all the smoke from the fireworks! It was insane but incredibly fascinating and intense.
Afterwards we went to a bar next door, but we were tired and didn’t really stay for long. It had been a long but eventfull day. And it wasn’t even a problem to get a taxi as some people had claimed, we just went 20 m down the road and voila a taxi! It was fun and I slept very good that night despite all the fireworks still going of.

Pictures coming later!