Rain..and more rain

Well its been raining pretty solidly for the last week. Not heavy Brisbane rain, just a soft annoying drizzle. It did actually stop for a day and was replaced by a heavy fog that hung around the campus and surrounding hills for the better part of the day. 

The foggy view that greeted us in the morning...China is out there somewhere.

Penny is going a little crazy with cabin fever as she is confined to indoor play while the rain holds...its just too muddy and cruddy outside. There is also some kind of vomiting diarrhoea bug going around the kids on the campus so it is adding stimulus to keep her quarantined.

The two beautiful girls.

While I write this Penny is running around madly being chased by the babysitter with a Panda bear puppet. Penny seems more at ease with her today which is great. 

Rain and rubbish...Every night the food vendors along the street just throw their rubbish behind them onto the street. So if you buy a spicy chicken wrap type thing they just throw the wooden skewer over their shoulder onto the pile and hand you your food. Every morning the cleaners sweep the rubbish into a big pile (as above) and then shovel it into their yellow rubbish carts and take to the dump..at least I assume it goes to the dump.

The rain is nice actually. After the long dry spells in Australia it is nice to see some decent rain. It is a little frustrating though as there was supposed to be a sports meeting last week which was delayed until this week but it is still raining so it has been cancelled again. When the sports day happens it will be on Thursday and Friday and no classes will be held on those days. Because of this the students had to do make up classes back in the first weeks of the semester. Michelle and most of the teachers had to teach on these days and now are waiting to reap the rewards of a long weekend. So she is eagerly anticipating a break which may or may not happen....in true Chinese fashion.

Traffic chaos at the gate across the road from our house...

One of my students said that there is a saying about Nanchang..."There is no Autumn or Spring in Nanchang"...not particularly poetic, however it does seem to be quite accurate.