Sally visited her daughter Su-Fern who is studying engineering in Hangzhou, about two hours by train from Shanghai, and realised her dream of sailing the Three Gorges before they disappear under the giant new dam being built across the Yangtze River. She noticed an improvement in fashion sense since her last visit to China five years ago. However conditions in provincial China are still pretty tough, and the flushing pedestal 'loos enjoyed by the overseas students are a luxury not available to Chinese students. Rumours from Out West have it that industry is snapping up students before they graduate. This year's Honours crop at Macquarie is Lara Tattersall, Marilyn Braine, Leharne Ley, Alastair Macmillan and Ian Kirby.
Job hunting is still the order of the day on the east coast.
Ian will not finish his thesis until next year. Tiger country Talking of jobs, one of the Centre's former students, Zhihong Lin, is heading for Dacca, capital of Bangladesh, next Monday to take up a job with P.T.Grant Geophysical. In Dacca, Zhihong will train local staff in the interpretation of seismic results from gas exploration. He expects to move to P.T.Grant's Jakarta office about the end of 1998. Marilyn spent a pleasant hour on the Palm Beach Ferry delivering the goods.