Teaching in the summer in China

So... I look a the weather forecast and am like "oo... its hotter in SC than here... so it shouldn't be to bad (lately been a little over 90)" Somewhat ok thinking..... I seem to handle the heat a lot better than the people that are from Songyuan. But summers here are a bit different in the fact that most places don't have A/C.

My apt not having A/C kind of sucks..... I am really only here at night though.. and I have a little fan I put by my bed.. so not to bad most of the time. Most big restaurants and big store shave some form of A/C but its usually not turned up very high... but it helps a little.

The classrooms that I teach in..........have no A/C (except the ones with no windows). So you have 20kids and 2 teachers in a room with 1 or 2 windows and 1-3 fans........ when you do 7 classes in a day like this... holy shit you are beat by the end. No only are you up there running around and playing games with kids... but its freaking hot and you are a puddle of sweat by the end of your first class. The new school for adults has A/C ... which is nice... so I am always happy to get a class there right now.

Our summer holiday is coming up in mid August..... and I found out the reason for this holiday.... they find what is supposed to be the 2 hottest weeks of the year... and take those off... because to many kids will be sick from the heat to show up to class anyways.... or parents will complain that it is to hot to have class.

So... as I was walking home from class the other night I noticed a lot of stuff happening in a parks.... so I went to check it out... and it ended up being a nice like 2 hour show up people singing and dancing.... I took some videos and pictures.

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