A Day in the Life

This post is going to be a little different. The weather recently has been really nice, except for the part when they turn off the air when I'm trying to sleep. So I've been walking around and taking pictures of everyday life around campus.

Basketball is a huge game around campus. There are at least four really big court areas and a huge number of games take place around the clock. This court in the North of the campus is the biggest and always the most packed. This week there have been some intermural games going on so besides the normal number of students playing there have been a bunch watching as well. The students also seem to have uniforms which is surprising considering how cheaply things are usually run around here.

These water bottles are a staple of life around campus. The school charges the students a bit for hot water, and showers too. They carry theses water bottles with them to lunch and dinner so they can get them filled up. The water in them stays hot for a really long time thanks to the design of the bottles. Most don't seem to have a name or many identifying marks on them so it's a wonder they're not stolen constantly.

I always wonder about vitamin D, discovered at the University of Wisconsin, deficiency among the girls as their interest in keeping white skin makes them deathly afraid of the sun. Seeing them walk around with umbrellas as if it was poring rain is a very common sight.

Weekends don't have much meaning for these workers who go at it 10+ hours a day seven days a week. These sorts of tubing can be used for a number of things including, when attached to a little motor, watering plants with rain runoff.

Quite a bit of work on this has been completed since I started teaching here. This dug out area in the back is going to make some kind of pond. When it's completed this library will loom over everything on campus not only with its size but in its much more modern look.