Well in the space of a few hours yesterday the temperature climbed about 20 degrees and it has gone from wet and cold to wet and hot, with wetness the dominant theme. It seems to ooze out of the walls, covering all surfaces, vertical as well as horizontal, with a film of water and making the tiled floors and stairs horribly slippery and the black board in the classrooms unuseable. Chalk does not show up on a wet board and nothing will stick to it either. Th...

Sorry about the same old photo, no time to download my photos this time, maybe next time! Well, my love affair with China is fast disappearing. I am sitting in a dingy internet cafe, where I can barely see the keyboard, choking on second hand cigarette smoke (I don't think that the Chinese have ever heard of lung cancer) and it's bucketing down outside! The upside, however, is that I've been shown how to close my window, told that I have a functioning electric bl...

It has rained nonstop for the last 3 days. Everything is cold and damp - my bed, my clothes, everything. It is impossible to get anything dry or warm. The absence of glass in the windows and apparent shortage of doors means that we have a constant through draught, forcing me to sleep in my coat last night and not doing my cold any good. But I guess that it can't last for ever and at least it is keeping the mozzies away. I have repeated the photo bcause the scene...