Sunday
Sunday arrived accompanied by heavy rainfall that woke me up around 2am, continued all through the day and well into the night. The sound of the rain has been a constant low-level distraction during the day.
Here the rain does not serve to wash clear the streets, instead it seems to stick to and mingle with the other debris creating a slimy, slippery sludge. It’s very polluted in Chongqing and everywhere there are signs of heavy industry and construction. Less than 5 minutes walk from where we are staying there’s a huge power station with 2 chimneys belching out a constant greyness into the atmosphere. The air and the rain feel dirty.
Some things we did this Sunday:
Banked
Shopped
Pieced together a map of Huang Jue Ping district
Spoke to family back home
Spent time in the studio
In general, quite a fragmented day but not a bad one.
Time zones
Chongqing is 8 hours ahead of U.K time, we arrived here just over 2 days ago but it feels like more. My sense of time is totally skewed, the usual markers have been displaced, awake when I should be sleeping, not hungry at meal times, one eye on local time the other on U.K time waiting to call home. No Sunday early closing, in Chongqing it’s business as usual.
For now I’m enjoying the time warp.
Nina Chua
14 November 2010
Chongqing
