i had been eating dinner with my student's family that night and we had no idea that it was snowing outside. when we got to the door we were all shocked. it was a nice restaurant, i feel like the staff could have informed us...
if you think the roads in china are crazy on a normal day, you should take a look at them when it snows. the rules, which are barely followed anyhow, are completely abandoned. people were facing all different directions on both sides of the road and they were all yelling at each other. i was delighted!
my student's family has a nice car, but it must not be anywhere close to 4 wheel drive because it was not driving very well in the snow. the fact that no one was moving when we were trying to go up a hill didn't help either, so we got stuck. my student, his dad and i had to get out of the car and push it up the hill while the mom drove. i really wanted to take pictures of the madness but the parents seemed to be freaking out a little so i restrained myself and concentrated on the car. at one point my student and i were cracking up though, their car looked like it was about to die and no one was heeding a fully operational stop light nearby.
everything turned out fine and we made it home all in one piece. i would have felt terrible if something had happened to their car since the only reason they were out that night was to take me out to dinner. we saw another car that was totaled, yikes.
the next morning the dalian workers were out in full force shoveling the snow! there really wasn't that much snow, i don't quite understand what they were shoveling. just leave it alone!
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