Falling stars in Suzhou

Today from 11pm until late there was a meteor shower over Suzhou since Sammi has never seen a falling star before we went off and joined the crowds at JinJiHu hoping to catch a view of some falling stars. We found a spot a bit away from the fucking lights pointed straight at the sky so we had a bit of a view of some ordinary stars but nothing compared to the nighttime views you would see in Canada especially in the mountains.

So there we are first sitting down with our heads craned up towards the sky trying to find one, once I informed Sammi that it wasn’t the most comfortable position and that in Canada we usually just lie on our back she put her head in my lap and within seconds saw the first shooting star of her life with the appropriate shrieks to accompany it. So I thought finally its starting so I lay on my back  and about 10 min later i saw my first falling star in China.

But then we didn’t see another meteor for about 30 min then we saw another one after about 40 min later, then again about 40 min later. We lay there for well over 2 hours seeing in total 6 meteors 2 of which were somewhat bright the rest were just mere flashes. Nothing streaking across the sky. Of course there was also a bunch of idiots there luckily not near us, trying to take photos of meteors using their camera phones and flash photography. Fucking retards

So in my opinion it was the worst fucking meteor shower of my life, but for Sammi it was special. I haev promised her that when she comes to Canada she can see a meteor shower thats actually visible without all the fucking lights at the sky and pollution in the air which inhibits our viewing.

For your information the meteor shower today is the Perseids

Info from wiki

The most visible meteor shower in most years are the Perseid’s which peak on August 12th -August 13th of each year at over 1 meteor a minute.

Doesn’t sound the the one I saw maybe for this meteor shower some of the meteors were not allowed in Chinese airspace due to government security concerns, “We must control the peoples access to the falling stars we don’t want to entitle them to too many wishes that aren’t state sanctioned”

Seeing a falling star in China is like finding a honest policeman, almost fucking impossible!

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