You cannot imagine how's the summertime here in Nanjing (China). For instance, I bought a thermometer and I couldn't read the figure. I had to buy another I put over the previous one.

And humid? Well, if you are thirsty simply open your mouth, wherever you are.

As you are not allowed to drive here (as a foreigner) I walk a lot, about 10 miles every evening with my photo equipment on my back, so I see a lot of things you don't surely realized of if you are driving a car.

The other day for instance, I saw a crowd of people sitting in front of the main gate of a new department stores. I wonder what was happening, were they on strike? Really they were 134 people ( I counted 267 legs. Yes, there was a lame man).

As I was approaching the group I realized one of them, the one who looked the leader was opening or closing the glass door as requested by his mates.

"What's the matter here?" I asked him.

"What's up?" he replied "don't we, the poor, have the right to control our own air-conditioning?"

"Excuse me sir, I only asked, I'm very nosy!" and I left.

Yes, that people was “'njoying” the cold air escaping out through the doors of the store. You could feel the difference at a distance as far as 60 feet from the door.

Yes, it was at the evening twilight, and the mercury in the thermometer was fighting to go below the one hundred line.

Because the hot weatrher, you also will find groups of people sleeping, on the sidewalk, here and there to avoid the warmness of their usually small shacks.

Yes, it was really hot, mainly for me having trouble to survive when the mercury column goes over the thirties.

Fortunately I am an engineer and I invented the proper device. See!