Pictures and comments
Well I made it without too much of a heart failure....I am sending this stuff to you now and will add to my blog in written form when I get the chance...let me know if you are getting this as a couple of people have said that they do not get it any more.....Eve has lost her blog entirely....not sure why
Fengtai Stadium...where their professional football team plays..only 1/2 full and a good sized stadium......maybe 12,000 people.....this is a complex...behind us is a set of 3 fastball fields..one will be the site of the Olympic women's fastball competition......I have played on the field just beside it....they are quite well set up....the one of ours has only a 225 foot home run fence so it is well within some of these guy's home run power...not mine...
We attended a live performance for the 10th anniversary celebration of the school....apparently it was a long running one....also they don't be quiet while the performance is on...so it gets loud out in the audience.....we were on a military base and had to go off the base to get clearance to come back in....all right within the public busing route...a little upsetting to us as we were paraded off the base, got clearance and then were paraded back....apparently, no one checked to see if we needed clearance......duh...
These are a couple more of the taxi drivers.....they just wait outside the gate and play cards or checkers or something to wile away the time.....Mr. Li......is the one to the very right ..he is one of the better ones...none speak English so that can be quite an adventure....
Another view of the market from a different angle....I just turned the camera 90 degrees and got this picture....and the crowds are almost always like this.....farmers set up their goods and some have permanent stalls
This is outside the market on the way back to the complex....just more stall....temporary....athey set up the umbrellas so that they are shaded from the sun...the end stall is one to fix bikes...and he moves back and forth every day....
No I didn't screw up...this is looking down from the wall ...straight down...to where the sea meets the water...a photo op
Even more so... but again I haven't mastered the technique of this thing and don't want to spoil my track record.....it say that the three guys in here have just decided that they need to have a picture for posterity and that they will stand here until they get it right......
Ok.....so I needed this one like I needed a hole in my head...anyway....I had to venture out a little ways to have this done...poster boy....
The fellow in the red shirt is Eric our good taxi driver....he has been a good fellow....he helped me even when I got lost on my bike and had to phone him to ask where I was
in the farmers market just a couple of blocks off the campus....just a row of buildings..but there is a butcher shop, bakery, several small shops that sell hardware, clothes, nuts, plants....all sorts of stuff...cheaply...
The crew...along with Rosamund the other white person.....Zest is between us in the back....he was the fellow who asked me to come with him....
The drinking session along with the dumplings and all the trimmings.
This is the principal's husband and he was the drinker of Bijou.....the rocket fuel you have to stay away from...and he was going full tilt...the fellow was the navy pilot and my buddy after I beat him at arm wrestling.....
Where the wall meets the sea...a bit of a atourist area and getting to be more of them all over.
The picture......me trying to create a unique picture and then not turning it around so that you would see what I was actually photographing
This was a little unusual..the store in the background was having a reprimand session by the owner of the store...or maybe a pep talk...not sure which..right out in public....all lined up in their uniforms and ready to go to work.
The guy to the left was suspicious of me taking pictures I know....but if you look at the dish in front of him..you will see why I wanted to take the picture....frogs....and frog's legs...and they also had live fish....they would kill and scale it right in front of your eyes so that you would know that you are getting the real thing I guess
This is a garage....Hard to believer hey....well if you look closely, and if my camera was focussed correctly, you would see that they have dug a hole in the earth as their pit.....and the guy drives the car in and they work on it
This is the teaching staff that I spent two days with in Shanhiaguan....as their poster boy....Rosamund also came with me and she was as much as a hit if not more...was quite enjoyable and we had to drink a little beer to be in with them if we really wanted to be..the lady in the middle is the principal and was at one time a gymnast...the others are all staff ...I think they all taught some English...
This is the on site bunk house for the workers...I had a look inside....not a lot of room...about 8 guys to a shack...not sure if there is any more that a bunk there either....one of the places would have to be a cook house.....but not sure where
This is the old reliable truck three wheeler....which carries everything and I mean everything as some other photos have suggested.
This is the start of a construction project close to our school. It is going to be a school and a hospital..so we are old. In December this was a sort of forested woodlot.....
Now look at it...there are three cranes.....the rolls of wire are part of the rebar system I think...there is a machine in there that whack the wire off at certain lengths and then it is rigid and used in the concrete...which by the way they are always pouring..with the pumper trucks....almost 24 7 but not quite..
This is what I mean....look at the scaffolding....it just keeps going up
And up....where the rebar is now, there is scaffolding that is about 4 storeys high now.....and just across the street from us, there is an apartment complex going up.....more like townhouses and that was just bare land about two months ago.....I don't know who pays for it or how it is bid or anything like that....but these guys work..hot sun.....cool days...doesn't seem to matter...constantly tying rebar and setting up scaffolding.....
Signing off...no I still have not signed my contract.....maybe tomorrow....seems like they forgot....
Fengtai Stadium...where their professional football team plays..only 1/2 full and a good sized stadium......maybe 12,000 people.....this is a complex...behind us is a set of 3 fastball fields..one will be the site of the Olympic women's fastball competition......I have played on the field just beside it....they are quite well set up....the one of ours has only a 225 foot home run fence so it is well within some of these guy's home run power...not mine...
We attended a live performance for the 10th anniversary celebration of the school....apparently it was a long running one....also they don't be quiet while the performance is on...so it gets loud out in the audience.....we were on a military base and had to go off the base to get clearance to come back in....all right within the public busing route...a little upsetting to us as we were paraded off the base, got clearance and then were paraded back....apparently, no one checked to see if we needed clearance......duh...
These are a couple more of the taxi drivers.....they just wait outside the gate and play cards or checkers or something to wile away the time.....Mr. Li......is the one to the very right ..he is one of the better ones...none speak English so that can be quite an adventure....
Another view of the market from a different angle....I just turned the camera 90 degrees and got this picture....and the crowds are almost always like this.....farmers set up their goods and some have permanent stalls
This is outside the market on the way back to the complex....just more stall....temporary....athey set up the umbrellas so that they are shaded from the sun...the end stall is one to fix bikes...and he moves back and forth every day....
No I didn't screw up...this is looking down from the wall ...straight down...to where the sea meets the water...a photo op
Even more so... but again I haven't mastered the technique of this thing and don't want to spoil my track record.....it say that the three guys in here have just decided that they need to have a picture for posterity and that they will stand here until they get it right......
Ok.....so I needed this one like I needed a hole in my head...anyway....I had to venture out a little ways to have this done...poster boy....
The fellow in the red shirt is Eric our good taxi driver....he has been a good fellow....he helped me even when I got lost on my bike and had to phone him to ask where I was
in the farmers market just a couple of blocks off the campus....just a row of buildings..but there is a butcher shop, bakery, several small shops that sell hardware, clothes, nuts, plants....all sorts of stuff...cheaply...
The crew...along with Rosamund the other white person.....Zest is between us in the back....he was the fellow who asked me to come with him....
The drinking session along with the dumplings and all the trimmings.
This is the principal's husband and he was the drinker of Bijou.....the rocket fuel you have to stay away from...and he was going full tilt...the fellow was the navy pilot and my buddy after I beat him at arm wrestling.....
Where the wall meets the sea...a bit of a atourist area and getting to be more of them all over.
The picture......me trying to create a unique picture and then not turning it around so that you would see what I was actually photographing
This was a little unusual..the store in the background was having a reprimand session by the owner of the store...or maybe a pep talk...not sure which..right out in public....all lined up in their uniforms and ready to go to work.
The guy to the left was suspicious of me taking pictures I know....but if you look at the dish in front of him..you will see why I wanted to take the picture....frogs....and frog's legs...and they also had live fish....they would kill and scale it right in front of your eyes so that you would know that you are getting the real thing I guess
This is a garage....Hard to believer hey....well if you look closely, and if my camera was focussed correctly, you would see that they have dug a hole in the earth as their pit.....and the guy drives the car in and they work on it
This is the teaching staff that I spent two days with in Shanhiaguan....as their poster boy....Rosamund also came with me and she was as much as a hit if not more...was quite enjoyable and we had to drink a little beer to be in with them if we really wanted to be..the lady in the middle is the principal and was at one time a gymnast...the others are all staff ...I think they all taught some English...
This is the on site bunk house for the workers...I had a look inside....not a lot of room...about 8 guys to a shack...not sure if there is any more that a bunk there either....one of the places would have to be a cook house.....but not sure where
This is the old reliable truck three wheeler....which carries everything and I mean everything as some other photos have suggested.
This is the start of a construction project close to our school. It is going to be a school and a hospital..so we are old. In December this was a sort of forested woodlot.....
Now look at it...there are three cranes.....the rolls of wire are part of the rebar system I think...there is a machine in there that whack the wire off at certain lengths and then it is rigid and used in the concrete...which by the way they are always pouring..with the pumper trucks....almost 24 7 but not quite..
This is what I mean....look at the scaffolding....it just keeps going up
And up....where the rebar is now, there is scaffolding that is about 4 storeys high now.....and just across the street from us, there is an apartment complex going up.....more like townhouses and that was just bare land about two months ago.....I don't know who pays for it or how it is bid or anything like that....but these guys work..hot sun.....cool days...doesn't seem to matter...constantly tying rebar and setting up scaffolding.....Signing off...no I still have not signed my contract.....maybe tomorrow....seems like they forgot....
posted by 12thhobo | 6:49 AM
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I am still getting & reading your blog. Good to see you are having a good time & someone to keep you company.
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