A Park Nearby

Today I went for a walk to the park near my apartment. I'd meant to go and find a different park, but I couldn't find it, so I went and found the one I'd been to before. As it turns out, I was almost at the second park - if I'd just kept going straight, I would've walked right into it.

I also took my camera today, so here are some pictures of the park. The first is a strange but cool set of statues immediately inside the North entrance to the park:



This is some kind of amphitheatre-like space in roughly the middle of the park. It might be a nice place for a game of capoeira, if I ever train anyone else to play with me:



And this is a pretty circular area right by the ampthitheatre:



These treehouses are some kind of restaurant or diner, I think, or maybe just a teahouse. I haven't had a close look at them to be sure.



This is a cute girl sitting by the river. You can't see her very well in the picture, so you'll just have to take my word for it that she's cute:



Finally: for your amusement, fun with floor numbers! Unlike most Western countries, the buildings here are numbered with 1 being the ground floor, instead of the floor above ground. This is easier for me to deal with, at least, but it makes the -1 for the basement level look out of place without an intervening 0. However, building designers here have inherited the Western superstition about the number 13. Most buildings here don't have a floor 13. The Chinese have their own superstition about the number 14, so that is usually missing, too. The building I work in deals with this by skipping the numbers; floors 13 and 14 don't exist. The building I live in, though, has a different plan, as you can see from the picture: