Jiangyin Has Narrow Streets

 Or at least the area around my Jiangyin apartment.

I noticed the narrowness when I was driving around with my wife & son the past Saturday.  

I found it made driving annoying because oncoming cars caused me to have to slow down. 

Commenting on this to my wife, she said that Jiangyin was a small city and so had narrow roads.

Busing ‘em out!

 An apartment community in the Xi Shan district apparently had all its residents bused away to a quarantine facility.  My wife showed me a photo of buses parked outside the complex.  The community was near my Xi Shan apartment community, and we had actually looked at apartments in that complex during the Summer 2021 apartment search.

Evidently, the Covid outbreak there was very serious,

Chow Mian Pian

 

There is a Lian Zhou Noodle Restaurant that is a fifteen minutes’ walk from my Jiangyin apartment.  I had this plate of chopped and fried noodles for the first time since 2021 when I was working in downtown Wuxi.

Yummy!

First Full Day in Jiangyin

 Went for a walk after my first day at my new school.  Here’s what I saw:

Nice.

Here is my classroom:

Needs some neatening and cleaning.

Good Omen?

 

Nervous I am about starting a new job.

Hopefully, doing this is a good omen.

Red Reading Booth

 

Soviet-style Noodles

 

Another Photo followed by Another Video

 

After Fourteen Years, the Mall Has Opened.

 In the area of the Xizhuang in Wuxi, China on the Hui Shan Big Road has stood a mall that had never opened.

Never opened it is till now.  Apparently it is an outlet mall now.

Whatever the mall’s name it had been a curious site for any expatriate who chanced to pass it on a regular basis.  They would tell other expatiates about it:  this mall that had never opened…