Around Campus

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Building English Dept Is In This is the building where the English department is located. Building One Building One: I love the stairs ~ usually there's a crowd lined up watching as I pass below. Building Three 1 Buidling Three: This is the teaching building where all my classes were held this spring. Building Three 2 Building Three Sign: Note the three horizontal lines on the left side. That's the character for the number three and is how I found my way to class early on. Building Three 3 This banner appeared at the very end of the semester, during finals. I asked some students what it said, which was essentially IMG_0533 This is coming into campus from the long entranceway off the main road. You cross the river over this bridge and are greeted my none other than . . . Jiang Zemin, former president of China. IMG_0534 Looking left from the same point, you see the IMG_0537 When better cars are built, Buick will build them. In China. Shanghai, actually, is where they're produced, so they're fairly popular here among the nouveau riche. In fact, there goes a leader now, slinking by in his Regal. IMG_0539 Another look at Jiang, and where the buses to Nada leave from. Swinging left around the small rotary takes you IMG_0701scaled I just like the staircase on this building. IMG_0707scaled Morning over East Lake. IMG_0709scaled Whatever happened to Sputnik? Little known fact: it splashed down in the South China Sea, from where the Chinese plucked it and brought it to campus for display. Relations with the Soviets soon soured, so they never returned it, and here it rests to this day. :^) IMG_0710scaled Welcome to Main Street! It's early morning, so it's unusually empty. IMG_0711scaled Storefronts (just to the left of the last photo). IMG_0712scaled This is known locally as Night Campus 0 I had to get some night photos of campus, as in Elisa's words, it's Night Campus 1 Here there's a red glow. Night Campus 2 I only include this one for the three figures you see in the center. Two older women and a man came up to me while I was photographing, and started a friendly conversation of which I understood nothing. :^) As they turned to go, I said Night Campus 3 The aliens have landed: a closer look. Night Campus 4 This is from the opposite end of the plaza as the others. I had set up my tripod and camera, sat on a low wall to photograph, and next thing I knew, my three friends had joined me. The little old man sat right next to me, and one woman just behind him; both craned their necks for a look at my camera's LCD screen. The horizontal light you see pictured is the headlight of a motorbike, taken with a long shutter speed (you can also see a little Night Campus 5 East Lake at night. In the middle, under what looks appropriately like fireworks, is a tiny island named Night Campus 6 One thing they do rather nicely here is cast floodlights on buildings. Night Campus 7 I love the tropical shadows that mix with the real branches: which is which? Red House This is the Red House, a karaoke bar near me in which the larger of Elisa's birthday parties was held. In the back is patio seating that borders the botanical garden, so at night you look out on fireflies and, well, mosquitoes. Sign 1 No marching bands! On penalty of death. This lovely road and walkway leads in this direction to my apartment (in under five minutes), and beyond that the botanical garden and the countryside. In the opposite direction are the teaching buildings, perhaps a five-minute walk. Sign 2 Can this really mean something like

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