To your tents!
I was going to post about Christmas Day, but the mood passed before I could write. Suffice it to say that the carolers finally did manage to perform for Grandma, who enjoyed it very much, and that the party/talent show was quite fun.And life goes on. Over the last couple of days, a tent city has sprung up on Shiji Lu, the road that leads to the college. On Saturday, there were a few makeshift tents on the side of the road, which I thought belonged to migrant workers at the construction site there. On Tuesday, there were more "tents" on the other side of the road and they started setting up frames of metal pipe in the middle. By evening they were putting on tin roofs and stretching fabric across the pipes. I thought a whole labor camp was springing up. They left two narrow lanes for traffic to pass. It really put a curb on the street dancing--we had to squeeze the circle into a space about half the size of what we're used to. And, of course, traffic could no longer divert to the south side of the road. We had a couple cars join the circle that night. Today the construction continued. In a couple of completed stalls, people started arranging merchandise like clothes and shoes. So now I don't know if "tent city" is really "tent mall" or if this is a very organzed labor camp. Like many things around here, we'll just have to wait to see what happens and will probably never find out exactly what's going on.
posted by John @ 6:31 AM
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