went back today to visit my grandparents in Sunning, a township within the metropolitan control of xuzhou, my hometown. my dad grew up in the area around Sunning and, today, due to an odd detour, we ended up visiting the middle school where his parents (my grandparents) used to work and where he used to live.
it's been thirty-odd years since he's lived there, and, according to him, they haven't upgraded the facilities much in the interim. the buildings are one-level, concrete, with peeling yellow paint. the insides of the rooms are dark, owing to the small-ish windows. students huddle in unheated rooms in rows of seats (even on a Sunday), with seemingly stacks of papers on their desks. and his old home was in the back of the school courtyard. it's two rooms, in the same concrete style.
how far we've come, in these three decades.
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