Day 20: Things Are Winding Down

Although there was no typhoon, rain hassled us, but we continued to approach the finish line.

There was of course no typhoon here; we are a little too far inland for it to actually be an issue, but as I mentioned yesterday we had no class just to be safe. As a result, I got to sleep in until 8:00, which was pretty nice.

In the morning we did a little bit of work, mostly moving rocks and shoveling dirt. We were waiting for a friend to arrive. Mike Poon is a mutual friend and high school classmate of Eric's and mine, and he is giving a presentation on our project to a businessman from Shanghai, so he came by to survey our work and get a feel for what we've done. Our intention was to put him to work in the afternoon, but this turned out to be difficult, as there was little work to do. All we did was help move the tables and benches into the park. These are quite heavy, but it certainly wasn't a full afternoon's worth of work.

This post is probably the shortest that I have written thus far, but there are very few things of interest occurring at this point, so tomorrow may also be like this. Tomorrow will also probably be my last daily post, as we leave on Monday. After that, my posts will become more sporadic: sometimes more than one post a day, some days no posts at all. It will depend on how interesting my time in Shanghai is. On the 19th, I'm returning home, so there should be at least some level of posting going on until then. See you tomorrow.