What is going on here?

"What is going on here?" is our standard mantra.

With little English on signs and not a lot of ready English speakers around, and with us having no Chinese skills, we are constantly wondering what we are seeing and hearing.

Yesterday around 3:30 where hear buses or trucks outside our window. We look out and watch as about 2 dozen coach buses pull up.

All of a sudden they start disgorging middle school age students. They walk around our apartment and enter the elementary school out our back window.

1,200 kids?

What are they up to? Ann decided to go over to the dry-cleaners where she would have a view of the situation. Not a student in sight. So what is going on. Where did they all go to? We have no idea. The school certainly could not hold them. Makes no sense  Sure would be nice to know once in a while.



Then there are the trucks. Suddenly one night a couple of weeks ago huge over-sized dump trucks start driving up and down our street ALL night. LOTS OF NOISE. What is this. We are counting dozens of trucks (instead of sheep).

Turns out they have quickly taken down several apartment buildings and removed the rubble from the north side of the campus. Inside the "2nd Ring Road" where we live constructions trucks are not allowed during daylight hours. Smart law. No room for them anyhow.



Last night Ann and I went for a walk to the back of the campus. An area about 3 apartment building wide by 3 buildings deep has all the apartments gone and a cement wall surrounding it to control the construction of the new apartment buildings.

Funny what happens while you are sleeping. You cannot imagine all the construction over here of apartments, office buildings, universities, shopping malls. It is amazing!