Chris in tent

Our windows and doors all have screen nets which we keep shut as much as possible, but after waking up one morning with one arm covered in mosquito bites we decided to take the battle to the next level and do what our students have been doing since about May: voila- the mosquito net. Remembering to unzip it before attempting to get out of bed at night is a bit of an issue, but bites are definately down.

Interlude

June 7th 2008
I finished writing my exam papers today, and emailed them off to the University. The temperature climbed to over thirty, and the air looked thick enough to chew. The tower of the Park Metropolitan, not five minutes' walk up the road, threatened to haze into the chalky sky and get lost all together. Students have been streaming out of the campus all weekend, loaded down like ants with improbab ... read more

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For centuries China stood as a leading civilization, outpacing the rest of the world in the arts and sciences, but in the 19th and early 20th centuries, the country was beset by civil unrest, major famines, military defeats, and foreign occupation. A... ... read more

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