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<\/a>The road in the foreground, of course, is actually straight, not curved.\u00a0 You can click on the picture to see the details.<\/p>\n=========================================<\/p>\n
Directions for walking to the office from building 44:<\/p>\n
From Building 44, cross the moat on the nearest bridge (going south. Here’s the bridge:<\/p>\n
Continue Walking on Ch\u00e9ngd\u00e9 Hu\u00e1n L\u00f9. You’re headed towards that space between the buildings on your left.<\/p>\n From that corridor, you can look back to see the elevator that you just took, next to the top of the staircase:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Click on the picture to get a larger view. The tall building to the right is the building with the office. This picture is taken fro<\/p>\n m the street.\u00a0 Next to the entrance is a blue-and-white lighted sign that announces the name of the department.\u00a0 It looks like this:<\/p>\n If you go straight and out the next door, you go into another courtyard. So instead, turn right and go around the back of the sign.\u00a0 This is the view that confronts you:<\/p>\n Anyway, you take the elevator to the top floor – the third floor, and this, Indiana, is where you’re confronted by the pit of doom:<\/p>\n And the keys we got will work!\u00a0 When you open the door, here is the view:<\/p>\n This is a panoramic shot, which is why the room seems to wide in the foreground. Actually, the room has straight walls. The space is quite long, and also rather narrow. So it’s not quite as easy to have a group of students over as the old office. There are six desks, and six desk chairs and six cabinets, one of which is open on the left side of the picture.<\/p>\n Here’s a closeup of one of the desks:<\/p>\n And here’s the fabulous night time view:<\/p>\n And by the way, the offices for the normal teachers are located on the second floor, not quite underneath ours.<\/p>\n Anyway, I hope you all enjoyed the tour.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I retook some pictures of the route to the office this week. Since I knew exactly where I was going, I had to walk there at the lunch break.\u00a0 I wanted pictures in the daytime so that the directions to the office could be made more clear. That is, they could be cut and pasted … Continue reading Pictures for the office.<\/span> <\/a>on the other side of the bridge, turn left (east) immediately onto \u660e\u5fb7\u5357\u9053 (M\u00edngd\u00e9 N\u00e1n D\u00e0o). Continues walking East on M\u00edngd\u00e9 N\u00e1n D\u00e0o. The buildings across the moat look like this:<\/p>\n<\/a>Keep going straight on M\u00edngd\u00e9 N\u00e1n D\u00e0o. You’ll pass the end of the Moat:<\/p>\n<\/a>At the next intersection, M\u00edngd\u00e9 N\u00e1n D\u00e0o veers slightly right, but keep walking on\u00a0M\u00edngd\u00e9 N\u00e1n D\u00e0o. At that point, the buildings 33 will be on your left. Walk past all of them.<\/p>\n<\/a>The next intersection, at the end of buildings 33 is is\u00a0 \u6210\u5fb7\u73af\u8def (Ch\u00e9ngd\u00e9 Hu\u00e1n L\u00f9). Turn left onto it.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>When you reach that space, turn left and go through the corridor. It looks like this:<\/p>\n<\/a>The sign next to the corridor looks like this:<\/p>\n<\/a>After going through the corridor, you want the building to your right, which looks like this (though it’s not curved, like it seems in this panorama shot):<\/p>\n<\/a>The door is under the circular logo. After going through the door, it looks like this: (photo taken at night):<\/p>\n<\/a>Turn right and walk behind the electronic sign. When you look to your left, you’ll see this:<\/p>\n<\/a>Light streams in from an inner atrium located to the left.\u00a0 The two staircases lead to the second and third floors, respectively. If you take the lower staircase, it brings you within a few meters of the meeting room for the normal teachers. The door to that room looks like this:<\/p>\n<\/a>However, our office in on the third floor. One could take both flights of stairs to reach it, but it’s simpler to go to the back side of the decorative column, the one that looks like this:<\/p>\n<\/a>There, you will find a hidden elevator, that looks like this:<\/p>\n<\/a>Take the elevator to the third floor. When you emerge, it looks like this:<\/p>\n<\/a>You next go to the far corridor, either by jumping over the fences, or walking around the brick wall on your right.<\/p>\n<\/a>However, you continue down the corridor, looking for room 359 on your right:<\/p>\n<\/a>The door to the office has this sign:<\/p>\n<\/a>The office itself<\/a>And the view from the two windows at the back of the office looks like this:<\/p>\n<\/a>That’s the Colosseum building in the foreground, and the East Gate is just off the frame to the right.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>You take the passageway by this sign. When you get through, you’re greeted by a small courtyard:<\/p>\n<\/a>Again, the building with 359 is on the right. When you turn in that direction, you’ll see this:<\/p>\n<\/a>The doors are on the left. This is what you see when you first go inside:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Directly ahead is a large column, the “main column” which seems to anchor this part of the building.\u00a0 Closer up, it looks like this:<\/p>\n<\/a>From here, one can take the stairs. Since the ceilings are higher than necessary, the stairs are quite a climb. Furthermore, as can be seen in this view taken from the top floor, they are arranged like those department-store staircases that require you to walk a ways on the floor before you can ascend the next case.<\/p>\n<\/a>And by the way, your sojourn on the second floor takes you past an open lounge. But it’s best to skip all that, since, hidden in the back of the main column, is perhaps the only elevator in the whole building.\u00a0 I walked right past it, and a guard had to point out to me where it was.\u00a0 It would seem that they wish to make the building more “green” by discouraging wasteful energy use by the elevator. Judge for yourself:<\/p>\n<\/a>The interior of the elevator is fashioned of rough-hewn wood. It’s clearly meant as a service elevator, and not meant for the general public.<\/p>\n<\/a>However, you can go around the wall to your right to reach the opposite side. Keep walking to the left in that distant hallway, and you’ll see this:<\/p>\n<\/a>That’s the door to the office in the center left, across from those boxes. Actually, the entire time I was there, workmen were fixing up this and that. Those boxes are probably there.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>Also beside each desk are some strange wheeled things. Anybody know what they’re for? They look like this:<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a>That’s the Colosseum that you see. And theres a wide inviting panel of class doors there at the bottom. I tried them later, and of course, they were all tied shut with bicycle locks. Sometimes I wonder of more bicycle locks end up on doors than on bicycles.<\/p>\n