The last 2 days I have taught 4 sessions of Oral English III (first semister sophomore). Tomorrow I teach 3 sessions. Each session is 2 hours long. 14 hours in class does not sound like much except I spent at least that much time in preparation and recording envents of class. It will probably take all of Friday to get the gradekeeper entries put in so I can record scores as the students complete them.
Following are pictures I took on the way to school today. We live on the old campus and we are bussed to the new campus to teach.Traffic lights are very few. Bicycles, scooters and the like ignore the lights. You will see someone on a scooter in the middle of the intersection making a left turn when the light says they should be back waiting their turn. They just move thru traffic as if it no big deal. Most roads have no shoulder. If a person is waiting for the bus he may very will be standing on the edge of the right lane. When making turns, left or right, no one stops to see if there is an opening, they just make an opening. The streets are all cleaned by manual labor. I will try to get better pictures of the brooms used. If there is debris in the middle of the road, large or small, the person assigned to clean that portion of the road walks out it traffic and does the cleaning. Road rage is non-existent. You cannot get mad at someone for doing something you don't like because 30 seconds later there will be another incident that could make you mad. You have to just 'go with the flow'.
The freshman were out on campus in their uniforms training. there is one picture below. All freshman for the first 15 days of school have military training.
Above is some freshman in their uniforms training. I could hear them out my window while I was teaching class. The windows to the rooms open and you could throw things out them, no safety barrers at all. I teach on the third floor.
This lady is sweeping the sidewalk. I will try to get a close up picture. Her broom is a bunch of small branchs bound together for a handle and fanning out for the sweep part.
There is some mud or something in the road. The street cleaner here is cleaning it up. Traffic just goes around him.
Here is another street cleaner working on the street. Notice no sidewalks. Sometimes people will be walking along the road by the curb.
Here is a bicycle/scooter truck. They are everywhere. Some are motorized and some are just 3 wheel bicycles with a truck bed over the back 2 wheels. One man was driving his scooter with a lady on behind him. She was nursing a baby while they maneuvered thru traffic.
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