Distinct Seasons (not Florida)

Since my last post was almost a year after my post before.  You can imagine a lot of things have changed.

I'm not in Nanjing.  I'm in Dalian with Kathleen and Nick.  We all teach at the Neusoft Institute of Information.  And I should change the secondary title of my blog to:  "a (somewhat spontaneous) year (or three) out east."

But either way, this place gets cold.  Not super Russia cold.  But pretty damn cold.  And to highlight that fact, I'll show you a shot of our school apartment buildings from when I got here and a couple of weeks ago.

This was taken from a tiny mountain that sits between the residential and the teaching portions of the campus.  It's a nice little walk (about 30 minutes up and down) and gives a nice view of the campus.

View of the construction site right to the east of our school...it's made disturbingly fast progress since the year started.

View from the roof of our apartment building, that hill in the distance is the one I was talking about earlier.

View of our part of town and the coast.

Those were all the happy pictures during the nice and warm summer.  Things done changed.

Snow-covered campus.

Our school has statues of famous scientists strewn about the campus every 100 meters or so.  This is a creepy Marie Curie.

I felt like I got quite lucky by taking two pictures of the campus in different seasons from almost the exact same point...so I decided to take advantage of this fact and make a little GIF showing the change.

...pretty sweet.