Cleaning

It is so difficult to keep things clean. OK I am a clean freak I know that, but I'm not overly keen on dusting. The house cleaner did that!

The dust here though it gets into everything I need to dust every couple of days. All I seem to do is make mud. The others think I am obsessed by cleaning!

Having a clean environment is important to me. I don't like living in a dirty apartment or working in a dirty classroom. There are no paid cleaners for the classrooms. Tthe students have their own roster to clean after each class. It's not so bad at the new campus, but almost unbearable at the old campus.

At the new campus all classrooms have water coolers. The students poor the water out of their water bottles directly on the floor. One day someone is going to slip and hurt themselves.

The students tend to eat and drink in class as well. They just throw their food scraps on the floor. This is common all over China. They also spit on the floor! Sometimes you need to watch where you stand.

Saying this though the Chinese always seem to be cleaning. They sweep and mop time and time again, however some things just never get cleaned.

The pollution is really visible some days. The new campus there is no carpet but lots of tiles. Whilst the students look after the classrooms there are cleaners who are continually mopping the corridors, cleaning the windows, cleaning the window runner but all that seems to happen is the movement of dust.

When they mop there are no buckets. They simply put some water on the floor and move the mop over it. The mops are made of fabric, so I'm unsure what value there is in moving the mop back and forth along the tiles.