On this day, I left the house at about 3pm to go to the tax office to file my taxes. Just 45 minutes later as I was coming back into Huatan I saw smoke. It was coming in the direction of the kids' school, so I swung by to check it out. The teachers there told me it was a textile company that was burning. It was actually rather far away but by the thickness of the smoke I had assumed it was much closer.
Josie's foreign teacher jumped on his motorcycle and went to check it out.
The first photo below is his picture.
This is what the fire looked like from the kids' school. We went out for dinner that night. Three hours later at about 7pm the smoke had doubled in size.
This is what it looked like from our neighborhood.
This is what it looked like as we headed out for dinner.
And this is what it looked like the next morning.
It was big news in our little town. My student told me that she had seen it on the news that night. She said it was arson. Way to bring it all together! I had just taught the grade eight classes the word so it was a perfect way to use our new vocabulary.
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