Went to Wudaokou to see Addie and passed BLCU on the way. When I came to Beijing last year this building had just began construction and was pretty much just rubble on the ground. Now it's almost ready and will start having new classes after the summer.
The buildings in China grow like mushrooms from the ground, one week there is some old house, next month it's a skyscraper. It's the only place in the world where I've seen such rapid growth but when you can hire 100 workers here for the same money as 5 workers in Finland it's no wonder. Minimum wage for a construction worker is now 900 yuan a month which is about 90 euros but some workers work without contracts and get maybe half of that. There are so many people here that if YOU don't do the job for a lousy salary, someone else will do it...
This building here is where I learned my Chinese for a painful 8 months. Every morning from 8-12. It's build around 20 years ago and the facilities are more or less WHATEVER but it also gives it personality :)
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