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hey are the most familiar strangers on the campus – we are served the food they cooked, sit on benches they cleaned, study under lamps they examined and wash with water in pipes they changed. They are with us every day, no matter whether we recognized or not. They are, sometimes, grander than the heroes who win renown.
3:30 a.m.
The sounds from the campus’s kitchen always fill the early morning air, with the food being washed by hand with icy water in cold winters and being cooked on stoves at a temperature of around 45 degrees in hot summers. 600 potstickers, scallion pancakes, flat-pan fried buns and more than 100 steamed buns were usually made fresh within three hours.
6:00 a.m.
When we are enjoying the coolness under shadow of a tree, the campus’s gardeners are labouring in the heat by transplanting, watering and mowing the plants. The gardening costs SISU only 3.89 yuan per square meter far lower than the market price. It is usually after 6 a.m. when the gardeners start to clean weeds, to avoid affecting the students’ and teachers’ work and life.
9:30 a.m.
Mrs. Wu, the Songjiang campus’s security guard, often help load a groaning cart with piles of new books carried from the Hongkou campus on Wednesday morning. Many students have grown to know her and some of them send gifts to her during the Spring Festival.
2:00 p.m.
The campus’s cleaners always start to work from 6:45 a.m. and do not get out of work until 5 p.m whatever the weather. 37 cleaners are responsible to clean both of the campuses; as to the Hongkou campus alone, they have to clean a dozen teaching buildings and more than 73 classrooms, totalling 12,500 times per year.
4:00 p.m.
The number of borrowing and returning books is particularly large at the campus’s Library and Information Center, sometimes reaching amazing 1,000. The campus’s librarians usually classify these books manually, sitting all day in the coldest corner of the Center’s lobby without a heater.
“Arranging books on shelves” is not an easy job, as there must be no gap between any two books on each layer of a shelf.
6:00 p.m.
The campus’s engineering workers sometimes carry out more than 60 repairs in the daytime and go on duty at night in the high voltage room, to ensure that all the lamp bulbs, taps, triangular valves, drainage pit covers, water pipes, switches, sockets, energy meters, water meters, ammeters, toilet sensors, lampshades and door stoppers on the Songjiang campus work well. They also need to check at least twice monthly the campus’s air-conditioners, elevators, sewer lines, transformer substation and fire control products.
9:00 p.m.
One student once fell down to bleed on her way from the No. 1 teaching building to the Library and Information Center on the Songjiang’s campus. The campus’s two guards, Mr. Lu and Mr. Wu, were first to find her and carried her to the nearest hospital immediately by cruiser. Her wound was finally closed with five stitches and they helped to pay the expenses of treatment.
Photos courtesy of the Photographic Society of SISU's Staff Union.
