bike ride

after classes, i took a bike ride to see what i could see. i did not see much. in the suburb where the school is, there are all types of land use. there was a man sawing lumber into planks. people farming under enormous telephone and electricity wires. tons of people on bikes, rickshaws, three wheeled cars, busses, trucks. no stilts. yet.
there are many people doing different things. a group of eight parked their bikes in the middle of a median and seemed to be gardening. there were about 12 people that i saw sweeping trash around the road. a man at a cart made noodles. there were many different jobs, and many different people doing them. and one waiguoren riding his bike around gawking and taking pictures.
no one seemed to pay much attention to me, except for the occasional hello. and i mean, "halllloooooo!"
i also passed a lone gaspowered lawn mower running by itself in the middle of a lawn. no one near it. just sitting there, spewing carbon monoxide into the atmosphere. but did i do anything about it? heck yeah, i did. i wrote this blog.