… bats by night …

I should be remarking on the fact that today – a Saturday – everyone acts as if it’s Monday (since Monday’s classes got switched to today so we can have Monday off (makes sense, right!?) due to the peculiarity of Holiday management in China).

But I’m not going to discuss holidays again today. I’m going to muse on something much more profound. Something that crossed my mind earlier as I was crossing the square on my way to lunch and my path was crossed by a swallow flying about her daily business, which is: making sure that the buildings around the square are not only inhabited by the students who have their dorms there, but also by them, the swallows, which fly in and out between the pillars and have their nests somewhere in the corners of the ceilings of the arcades. And then I was musing on how interesting it is that by day it’s the swallows that fly back and forth right above our heads, and by night it’s the bats that are doing the same thing. Seems like a busy place, that square. And it also seems like those dorm buildings are highly rated real estate, indeed!