The day before yesterday was the first day I was freezing, not because of the air conditioning, but because of the cold temperature outside. When I arrived in Shanghai it was hot and humid, but recently the temperature dropped rapidly and the climate is the same like in Germany: cold and rainy. But I have to admit, that it is somehow a relieve, because now we don’t need to use air conditioning at home.
The second relieve: The street in front of our house is almost done. That’s not only good, so that our house is easier accessible, but we can also sleep through in the nights. The workers redoing the street have very strange and hard working hours. Starting early around 6.30 am, at some point in the afternoon it gets quiet, but after dinner time, latest starting from 8 pm the noisy work starts again and continues until deep in the night. Once I checked the time, when I woke up, because of the noise. It was 3.30 am! As the 100th anniversary of the university is close (next month), I guess that the workers are under strong time pressure to finish the construction work on the campus. I am quite sure, that they don’t get much for these kind of over hours. Workers on construction grounds are mainly migrant workers from poor rural areas, who work and live illegally in the big cities. The big economic development in China is built on the shoulders of those poor workers.