The never ending adventures of a Canadian who lives in Wuxi and Jiangyin, China with his Chinese wife Jenny and their son Anthony aka Tony
Hello.
The wife is in Nanjing. I am in Wuxi. It is Saturday night. What am I going to do? Stay home and play on the computer. I will download Firefox. A reader of my blog at www.andiskaulinsinchina.blogspot.com told me how I can use proxy servers to get to blocked websites in China. After doing that I will edit a pregnancy update video and upload it to youtube.
Thank you to Anonymous for your instructions about using firefox. I can now get to sites like Andis Kaulins in China at blogspot and Wikipedia.
I overheard the anecdote about the general secretary at Southern Yangtze University drinking the water at the meeting. The story I told in the previous blog entry was true. However, the drinker was a 20 year old general secretary of the Student's Union I learned today. The Water in Wuxi is bad. Of that there can be no doubt.
This happened at Wuxi's Southern Yangtze University. The student and staff refused to drink the water. So the General Secretary of the University drank a glass of water before them to show he was confident the water was drinkable. The next day the General Secretary was taken to hospital.
I can publish to my blogspot site but I cannot get to my blogspot site. It is a pain. But it seems to happen once every week. I suspect that I should be able to see my blogspot site tomorrow.
The first tests by the Germans of Wuxi Water show that Wuxi water is very bad tap water but it does not show it to be dangerous. However, final results are not in. Also, it is suspected that the samples were tampered with.
The Wuxi Sheraton is making contingency plans for the summer. The problem of the blue algae could flare up again when the temperatures rise to near 40 degrees Celsius.
I had one lady tell me she does her laundry out of town. A long time Wuxi resident she does not believe the government.
It turned out that the Anaheim Ducks team that won the Stanley Cup had more Canadians in their lineup than the Ottawa Senators did. So much for my being disloyal by cheering against the Senators. And it also proved my point that Ottawa does not represent Canada anyway.
The coach of the Ducks was a former Winnipeg Jets player. Randy Carlyle played in the west of Canada. Yeah!!!
I am back in Wuxi. I spent two days in Nanjing where I saw a lot of the wife and little of Nanjing. I did take video which I will plop together to make a youtube video.
I can't see this blog site right now. But it is not stopping me from publishing it. Is the Chinese government clamping down on the free speech that has been exhibited in the past week?
I was expecting the King of Wuxi to learn his expat subjects in this water crisis in the manner of which he had helped to liberate Hans Island from the Danes. Instead, what do I learn? He has gone to Taiwan. So instead of Churchill, we get a WH Auden. The shame.
But seriously, he had to go there on business.
Someone has taken a sample of Wuxi water to Germany for analysis. Many Wuxi expats are waiting for the results which will come either late Thursday or Friday.
One of my students told me that Wuxi water is like beer. When I asked him to explain what he meant. He said that Wuxi water looks like beer and tastes like it as well. Tastes like it? I asked. The student said that he hated beer.
It has been said by those in the know that Wuxi tap water is not safe to even shower or wash clothes with. One of our trainers said he had crystals on his skin after taking a shower in the water.
WuxiLife is full of debate verging on political about the water crisis. Chinese and foreigners are getting involved. I wonder how long the debate will last before the site is shut down.
I am going to Nanjing at 847 am tomorrow.
