March 31, 2010

Different Weather Different Condition

Posted in life, Weather tagged china, drought, Edinburgh, March, Merchiston Campus, snow, Wen Jiabao, Yunnan Province at 8:26 pm by jellypotter

It snows heavily in Edinburgh as it is March now however it is quite normal in Scottish people’s opinion because it is a good activity to skiing during Easter Holiday for them. For me, a Chinese student who is fresh in Britain, it is quite strange as it is warm in a whole month which enable me to put on T-shirts and skirts yet become minus degree suddenly.

The students suffer a lot today as it is slippery and heavy snow makes clothes and hair wet. People cannot hold umbrella because of the strong wind. Many students in Merchiston Campus suggest they prefer to stay in library or JK Center after class rather than go back home. The bad weather also delays the buses as it is quite unsafe to drive in normal speed on slippery road.

People here do not like the rainy and snowy weather which yet is the most expected thing in Yunnan Province in China where the most serious drought happens. Chinese people have one bowl of water to drink or wash per person per day; some children have to walk several miles in order to get two buckets of water for their family. The lands become cracking and all the grains which make country people live die. Prime Premier Wen Jiabao comes to Yunnan to investigate the real condition and monitor the disaster relief work. When he is seeing the living condition of people, he speaks with tears.

All the companies and people in other province launch activities to fund the disaster area. They donate millions bottles of water and pray God to rain as soon as possible. Different weather makes different condition. It has not been raining in Yunnan for three months yet rains nearly every day in Edinburgh. People in Edinburgh damn the rainy weather yet people in China pray to rain.

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