One of the many security guards on the school campus. With straight backs, military clothes, and white gloves, they take their job very seriously. I am sure that here, they feel they have landed a good job, while back in the U.S., this would be seen as a "crap job", and they would make sure they looked like they hated it.
A school assembly. The kid in the foreground is a really nice Korean boy who goes by Danny. I can't even remember his real name.
The weekend light, fountain, and fire show on Rainbow Walk at Jinji Lake. It is bigger than the show at the Bellagio in Las Vegas. Cheesier too, but in a good way. The shows usually happen weekly, but they have been sporadic lately because of tunnel excavation under the lake at this exact spot for the new Suzhou subway, scheduled to open in 2010.
Two views of old Suzhou. The second photo is the back door of someone's kitchen, with ancient steps going right down to the canal. It is a very evocative scene for anyone who doesn't have to live in this kind of poverty. I'm sure that, whoever they are, the get tired of tourists photographing them.
1 comment:
I'd take that same picture! And think that it seemed like a good reading spot.
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