2004.2.2

I was sorry for hearing that Rose had losen one of her new gloves at the subway station in the morning rushing hours in SH.I'd got so many gloves when I was once in Shanghai.Many of them were given by my friends as presents.However,I left them with many other clothes in my dormitory when graduated from school.Because of the water shortage we started to set up another water supply line.Pipes were collected and placed in right position.Meanwhile,new pipes must be welded to the old one by an electric welding machine.To cut off the running of the water Uncle Xie and I climbed high onto the mountain where spring water is collected and poured into a huge pipe.Even if it is winter,the weeds are so thick there,and taller than me.I hurt my right hand badly when passing by a place with thick thickets.Finally we got there and block the mouth of the spring so that the welding work could proceed smoothly.We stayed for two more hours waiting for unblocking order from the remote welding place.Later when we unblock the well it was already full of water.I took off my upper outer garment,stretched into the well and tried to approach the mouth to remove the blockage but finally I failed.Without any choice Uncle Xie jumped into the well and after several minutes he hardly accomplished this nasty work.In strong wind and scorching sun we left this unfrequented and wild place.During this climbing I found that the most harmful plant named "Zi Jing Ze Lan"-also called as "poisonous weed" by local people-in this area had rapidly spread like wildfire and killed many kinds of plants.Now the whole mountain is full of these harmful plants.The condition is really serious.