Chinese girl camps in motor home next to primary school to save commute
- Travelling time made her grumpy and anxious, mother says
- Now she gets a good night’s sleep
A young girl in eastern China has been living in a motor home next to her primary school because her family was concerned about the long commute.
For nearly two months the girl, surnamed Zhu, has spent the school week – from Monday to Thursday – with her grandmother or mother in the motor home, which cost the family half a million yuan (US$74,000).
On the weekends they make the journey, which takes more than an hour, back to the family home in Wenzhou’s Youngjia county in Zhejiang province, according to Qianjiang Evening News.
The girl is a grade 4 pupil at Wenzhou No 2 Foreign Language School in downtown Wenzhou and for most of her first two years stayed in the school dormitory.
“After some time in school we found she could not discipline herself,” her mother was quoted as saying. “Her school results were not stable.”
From the start of Zhu’s third year at the school, she commuted from home, but that proved exhausting for the girl and her parents.