OK, so "like" is a bit of an understatement.
OK, so I have been listening to Christmas music, off and on, since September. ANYWAY!
Even though I hear Christmas music more often than the average person, I had not heard any playing in public before I left for Asia on October 31. So I wondered when I would. After all, it looked like I would not be home until just a couple days before Thanksgiving.
So imagine my surprise when I heard Christmas music in public for the first time on November 9. Where? On an airplane from Hefei, China to Beijing, China!
Yep, I got on the plane deep in Eastern China, in a town which had almost no English anywhere. (Seriously. It's disconcerting.) Yet the entire time the plane was being boarded, the music being piped in was a series of Christmas carols.
Here's a map to help you get your bearings. The big A is Hefei (pronounced something like "HUH fay.") It is south of Beijing, which has served as my home base on this trip. Oh, and you can see Nanjing just to the east of Hefei, which is where I will be when this blog entry gets posted. I cannot get to facebook, twitter or blogger while in China, so I am having to write this in Japan and get it ready for later publishing.
For the record, the first song was an instrumental version of "Jingle Bells." It was pretty trite, so I was not going to search hard for a version of it to include here. Instead, I will embed a pretty good version from the Royal Navy of England.
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