Busy Week

I noticed I haven’t posted anything in a while. I was actually very busy this week with all my new classes. Had to prepare more classes (which am very slow at) and teach the new first years! There’s more work than the second years! I didn’t bother going to English corner either, cos I was busy!

The weather is getting cooler now in Dalian and the wind is picking up. Autumn is upon us and winter is approaching. Not looking forward to the minus temperatures!!

One funny thing I have noticed is that there are a lot of old people rummaging through rubbish bins outside. There are a few big steel drums outside the apartment building where we can dump our rubbish. I was told that people can get money for old glass and plastic bottles. They can get 2 mao (two tenths of a yuan - around 2 euro cent) for a bottle! So, it’s funny cos the old people, who have nothing else to do, watch the bins like hawks. As soon as somebody throws a bag of rubbish into one of the bins, some old person vulture-like descends on the bin to see if they can find something useful! If they collect maybe 14 bottles, maybe they can get a meal or some vegetables for theirselves. No bad eh?