Here are some more random pictures. This semester, my classes met in a large classroom with a messed up chalkboard. It appeared that people had been taping notices onto it for years, rendering it almost unusable. Before and after classes, I started peeling and scraping it. I then brought gloves and solvent, eventually getting it to this stage:
It took about 4 hours of work, but finally…
(by the way, this job was not in my teaching contract).
As usual, we held a “small money” auction at the end of this year, allowing the students to buy items with play money earned by active participation:
Here are some of my students from this semester:
Outside of our school, some new buildings are under construction. As usual, these projects make extensive use of manual labor. It will probably take a long time for these guys to move this pile of bricks upstairs:
Even though we’ve lived in China for quite a while, I’m still impressed with their ability to convey large numbers of people on small vehicles:
On the north side of town, there is an old park with a classic entry gate:
tropical plants:
a bamboo garden:
and a quaint, lakeside building with a large satellite antenna in the background:
Some days, our air quality is pretty bad. This week, I read an article about Paris pollution (the worst in ten years), so I checked their numbers:
Then, I checked our current numbers:
Thankfully, we live in a relatively clean Chinese city and the numbers are not always so bad.
This beautiful sunrise represents the sunset of another year in China!
Another year in China…! Amazing that you’ve now lived there “quite a while”…