Mike Mulligan Comes to China

China always has a lot of construction going on and Changzhou right in the heart of one of the richest parts has even more. At one point something like half the worlds cranes were in China which isn't so hard to believe if you spend any time here. The school itself has been undergoing a huge amount of work primarily focused on the construction of a new library right in the center of the campus. Well the library is done now, more on that in another post, but there is still a lot of construction going on. Most of it has moved off campus, barley, with the work centering around the road right in front of the school. The road in front of the school was at some point in the past a big highway through Changzhou, but with bigger and better roads being built constantly it was soon dwarfed by almost every road in the city. It fell into disuse and disrepair, driving down it at night was a harrowing ordeal as it was almost completely unlit. But starting at the end of the last school year they started to carve the whole thing up to build some brand new six lane road in its place. That work has been going on for some time now, and for reasons that never really made a lot of sense disrupting the water supply to the school constantly.

The hotel's water has been better, which is good since I get really grumpy when I can't take a shower in the morning, but that's probably just because they bribed the right people. The road looks like it's finally well on it's way as they've paved part of it and look like they are smoothing out the part in front of the school to actually start paving soon. People always talk about the pollution in China, and while it is mighty a lot of what I really feel on a day to day level is just dirt kicked up by the constant construction. My dad's comment on all the pollution in China was that he was no longer worried about global warming since China would suffocate itself to death before that ever became an issue.