It looks like fish is back on the menu! (Marcus)

Well the resuscitation of the lake of death looks like it has been a partial failure. The white underbellies of fish corpses dot the lake whilst also covering the shores. Peculiarly we found a whole bunch of them within one of the gardens that yes, we should have photographed as it was one of those things you only see in China, but it was drizzly out so we gave it a miss - well that and the fact there were students and teachers around.

The fish had been cleaned up by later tonight, and I can confirm that there are at least some fish still alive - probably most of the goldfish. It's almost as if the larger fish just couldn't get enough air. They pumped 'clean' water into the lake for the past 3-4 days - 24/7. I am curious to know where this water came from, and just how clean it actually is, as it was a bit on the stinky side itself. The lake has clearly risen a few inches from this little debacle. It makes me wonder whether they are actually looking into what killed the fish, or have just been satisfied with blowing some 'clean' water into it and leaving it at that. Cant bode well in the prosperity department having a lake full of dead fish. If they had visitor's scheduled I would have expected to have seen the school's gardeners forced to swim in and fish out the corpses at gunpoint. It would be better to die than to lose partial face doncha know!

Maybe if the bloody cleaners didn't wash their mops in the lake this kind of thing wouldn't happen - geez.

We happened to notice as we were driven over to the other campus that a restaurant that opened recently has absolutely gone to town with the opening 'ceremonial' I don't even know what you'd call it - gala extravaganza? There's about 40 bunches of exotically gaudy flowers beneath a beautiful(heh!) inflatable arch, with the standard issue red Chinese banners.

I suspect there'll be fireworks a-gogo coming from this restaurant tonight. There has been fireworks every single night since we've been here - and hes, that's just over 2 months now.

We also happened to notice last night, just before meeting Josh, that our favourite Korean BBQ place has GONE :( The whole place is gutted - not 100% empty - it's either in the process of completely vacating as the business has been closed, or it's being renovated. I have a feeling it might have gone down the drain because there are literally thousands of restaurants around here (Because there are litterally thousands of people around here), but the place didn't look dead or anything. But the food there was fantastic! There was one meat dish in particular which I can easily say was the highlight of our stay in China thus far. It going is a disaster!!

And finally, between the back door of the school and the new restaurant is a canal. This canal runs alongside the school. I photographed it to try and capture the beauty of the absolutely putrid black water. It's black. It's not dark because it's night time or dark because of the drizzly overcast day - this water is _feral_. When you get to a certain angle of it, you're hit with the best poo smell in town. We have written about this canal before, but I swear to god, if you were to fall in it - you're fucked - no question. If you didn't outright die, you would be so utterly consumed by skin diseases and fester, well it's just not worth thinking about.

The photo doesn't really do justice to just how disgusting this water is. If we could somehow capture the smell and upload it to the blog - we would have.