This is China

Last summer at our training seminar we were warned that some days we would turn up at class and find out that no-one had let us know there were no classes that day. Well yesterday I went to the other campus for my 4:00 p.m. class and someone else was having a class there. He looked at my schedule and said there must be a mistake and since there were no students waiting for an English writing class I figured he must be right. After a half hour of phone calls back and forth with my contact for the department I found out that my class had been the day previous. I had missed two classes.

Last Saturday evening the four couples on our China Teachers program decided to go out for supper. Originally the plan was to go to Salsa (a Mexican restaurant) but it had closed down. We heard it had moved but couldn't find out where. Plan B was to go to "Hamburger Place" so we met there and it was closed. There was a Chinese restaurant a few doors down from Hamburger place and it looked very busy. We went there and were pleasantly surprised. We enjoyed the meal.

These past two weeks we have had rain and more rain. Friday and Saturday it cleared off but by Saturday evening the rain was back. One day it was clear in the morning but suddenly it was very dark out. There was loud, loud thunder the rest of the day. The students said there was hail on the other campus on Wednesday but we didn't get it.

Here in Nanjing people ride bicycles and electric scooters and the rain doesn't stop them. They have interesting raincoats that cover the handlebars of the scooter or bicycle. I have tried to get a picture of the raincoats on the following video.