If you stopped by my school right now, you would undoubtedly be impressed by the thick black lawn out front. Yes, that's right. It's black. Well, black with flecks of brown. But I'm sure they'll fix that brown stuff shortly.
Apparently the way that the Chinese deal with their lawns after winter is to burn them. Everywhere you go right now in Dalian, you'll see workers out burning lawns. Parks, private property--it doesn't matter. If it's brown and grassy-looking, they'll burn it (watch out all you dish-water blondes)!
And we complain about polution in Western countries. Imagine what would happen if Chicago, Atlanta or Seattle tried to burn their lawns. Of course, there are a lot more private lawns in American cities than over here.
In other news, the weather's been a bit warmer. Technically, today was supposed to be the last day with heat, but there's still quite a pile of coal at the heating plant next door. Hopefully with the weather change and remaining fuel it won't be too cold from here out. I haven't had to use my wall heater in the mornings lately, so that's been nice.
Posted by at March 15, 2004 1:04 PM