Day 102 – Sunday
We chatted with Carolyn, Seth and family
for a little while this morning. Then we
left for Church. We took a taxi and got
there plenty early. It was good because it
gave David and Sue Shauerhammer a chance to practice the Christmas songs with
the guitar before the others got there to rehearse. We are going to sing for the Sacrament
Program in two weeks and for the Chinese Christian Church celebration on Christmas
Eve and Christmas Day. We are going to sing a couple of songs for that program. The others got there and we sounded pretty
good. Then we had Church.
After our meetings, we had the usual BIG
potluck. Mexican style today. Lots of food and good company. We stayed around and talked for several hours
after. Stan and David did some home teaching
and then Stan gave some computer help to Jim Purnell. Wendy made caramel popcorn and we all ate some
more! Finally we decided to part and
went home.
The pollution was pretty bad today. We checked it when we woke up and found the
skies pretty gray. Before
we left for the Hanlin Hotel and it was almost 400 then. We checked it just before we left to come
home and it was even higher! Needless to
say, we were wearing our masks today.
Sad. I don’t like to wear my
mask, but I dislike even more to have the cough that comes with it.
We just spent a quiet evening doing email
and Facebook, kind of catching up after the busy week we had.
3 comments:
I'd be curious to know how much the face masks keep pollutants out, or in other words, what still gets in.
This, of course, you could respond to perhaps anecdotally, but probably not sicentifically.
Does the smog seem to be greatly affected or increased by high pressure inversions, like we often get in our Utah valleys during certain times both in the summer and winter?
Also, though its different, I wonder how much you'll miss of long interesting conversations there with other adults, versus how it will be with "mere" family (children & grandchildren) when you get home. I suppose you'll only know that some time after you get back!
The masks are supposed to keep out 2.5 particulate matter. I guess it works, but my throat hurts today.
Yes, the smog is greatly affected by this areas geology. It is built like Utah Valley with the high mountains (hills is what they look like to me) surrounding us. We get inversions. If the wind is blowing a certain way, we get more from the factories that are to the south and west of us. It the wind is from the brick factory direction, you get a LOT of bad air. This area also has as much population as California, so you are talking about a lot of people, a lot of cars and a lot of industry that does not control its pollution out-put. Hope that answers that.
We miss the conversations with the kids and grandkids. We like the people we are with here, but they are not family. David misses, especially, talking with others in depth. We do get caught up a little when we are with the other BYU teachers here, but during the week, he really misses it. Me, eh... maybe sometimes though...
Shandong Province (96 million) has more than double California's population (38 million) in an area a little smaller than Utah.
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