......Teaching drawing, painting, environmental design, and photography at Xiangfan University in Hubei Province

Tuesday, November 9, 2010

Motorcycles and What-Not

I've seen two motorcycle crashes the past three days. On Sunday this lady crashed her scooter on a busy road by losing balance or getting cut-off or something. She was shaken up but ok...I helped her pick up her scooter.  Then today, while doubling up on the back of this guys motorbike (and no it's not weird as western culture views it, it's the normal in China to see 3 or 4 people on a motorcycle) ironically enough I saw another accident, a bad one. A guy was laying limp on the ground and got stretchered off into an ambulance with his bike laying on the ground.  It was a pretty bad scene.  As I saw this I was thinking, maybe this is a sign I should get off the bike. He was whipping around campus pretty fast though in and out of students with headlights periodically switched on and off, also a norm in China. It was fun though and didn't get in an accident. Probably won't be doing that too much....

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