I spent some time just hanging around schools and seeing children interacting, preparing and playing. Again, I tried taking lots of photos but just couldn’t really capture the chaos that these kids endure. It’s worlds away from what we have in the states. Kids often take “taxis” to class. But these aren’t any regular yellow cab. Taxis here are dudes on old rickety motorcycles. You known them because they wear a reflective construction worker’s vest. The little tykes hop on, helmetless, and hang on for dear life through a chaotic maze of auto fumes that makes the NJ Turnpike look like a botanical garden. After that, the kids grab some food from vendors that set up in front of the school selling things like scrambled eggs (prepared in what appears to be a steel filinf cabinet), vienna sausage looking things and instant noodle. Some kids look like they are cleaning duty and have to sweep up and collect garbage that’s basically…everywhere. I wonder how they determine who has to clean and who doesn’t?
地元の学校で時間をすごし、子供たちが会話したり、準備したり、遊んだりする姿を見ました。ここでも写真を撮ろうとしましたがこの子達が毎日耐える混雑ぶりは写真では伝わりきれません。アメリカの通学風景とは別世界。ここでは子供たちは通学に「タクシー」を使います。でも、普通の黄色いタクシーではありません。こっちのタクシーは古いぐらぐらのバイクに乗ったおじさんたちです。工事現場でよく見る反射するベストを着用しているのが目印。この小さい子達はヘルメットなしで、排気ガスまみれの混乱する迷路を走り抜けるため、バイクにしがみつきます。バイクが走る環境は、ニュージャージーの高速道路ががまるで植物園に感じてしまうようなところです。その後、子供たちは学校の前にある屋台（スチールキャビネットのようなもので作られています）でスクランブルエッグ、ウィンナーソーセージみたいなものとインスタントラーメンを買って食べます。数人は掃除当番らしく、校庭を掃いたり、そこいらじゅうにあるゴミを出したりしています。どうやって掃除当番を決めているのだろう？
I went to school in China, did those cleaning duties and ride my bike to high school thru those traffic chaos… each student is on cleaning duties, taking turns, so it’s kind of working as a team and learn to keep places clean. When I ride my bike to school there was no cycling routes so I get to ride in the middle of the street, when I heard the cars coming I go back to side and let them past me. Same for the car drivers, they are aware of there will be people and cycler running out from the street from nowhere. For some places in China there seems no rules, but there is, and we live with them very naturally. =)
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Woah! Have you been there so long that your grammar has gone to shit?