The best time for me to see the stars is early in the morning. It gets dark here much earlier in August than it does back in Connecticut - the sun is setting around 6:30 and there's hardly any dusk - so the stars could be out long before I go to bed. Okay, not too long before I go to bed since I'm struggling to keep my eyes open much past 8:30. But even so, I think there are more lights on or maybe there's more lingering scooter exhaust in the air, so it's just hard to make out more than a few stars in the evening.

This morning, though, when I stood out on my balcony just after I woke up there was a lovely crescent moon hanging over the eastern horizon and the constellation Orion was there as well. There weren't a ton of stars but enough that I could see Orion, and he's my favorite constellation (how nerdy is it to have a favorite constellation?). The sun rose shortly after that, which was also quite lovely, and now the day has started. We've managed to have two good days of teaching, only about 178 more to go!