Now that we're settling back into a routine - which will be a short-lived routine as we have Chinese New Year break coming  up in three days - I will go back to a mundane topic, the weather. It's cold! Not the New England cold of days upon days of sub-freezing temperatures. I get it, that's what cold is. But when the weather was like that last week when we were in Massachusetts I turned up the heat and curled up in front of the fireplace.

Here the temperatures are in the fifties, which doesn't sound so bad except that it's staying in the fifties and there's no heat to turn up. Nobody has a furnace - not the apartments, not the school, not the restaurants, not even the mall. When you get chilled, which is how the fifties feel when the air is moist and the wind is blowing, then you just stay chilled. The apartment is all tile floors and cement walls so once it's gotten cool the whole building stays cold. It's the same with the school, with the added bonus of a constant 20 mile per hour wind outside my classroom door. 

While we were gone Taiwan had record setting cold with the temperatures dipping into the forties for a few days. It's supposed to get close to that this weekend. But the good news for us is that we're flying to Myanmar on Friday and it's going to be in the nineties there. Time is pull out the bathing suits and suntan lotion.