The most joyous time of the year! Spring Festival is hear! Unless, of course, you are a foreign teacher. In that case, everyone takes 30 hour train rides home and leaves you pondering why you even exist in China at the moment. I took the opportunity to go back to Hangzhou, my Chinese hometown. I also took Purple Cow with me, as one of my students gave me him to me so "I wouldn't feel lonely." What was amazing about the trip was that a lot of my friends were still basically themselves, in basically the same place. The odds of that are very small. You can see that Purple Cow is very popular!