The azaleas are starting to bloom here and every once in a while we get a warm day. It reminds me a little of St. Simons in March. The Chinese azaleas don’t look any different than our Georgia azaleas. Well let me rephrase that – IF I actually took good care of my Georgia azaleas and trimmed, watered, and fertilized them they would look like Xiasha’s azaleas. The landscaping on this campus is beautiful. Last Saturday as I was leaving the campus at 6 am I noticed 12 large holes. When I got back that night at 11 pm they had all been filled with large 15 ft trees. On Sunday they were trimming the trees and by Monday they looked like they had been growing on the campus for years.
My boss also reinforced the fact that spring has arrived. She has changed some of our classroom assignments. As quoted, the classrooms that do not have ceiling fans would “make both students and teachers uncomfortable in summer time”. Even though the winter has been much colder than Georgia I will NOT assume that the summer will also be cooler than the island. It will definitely be an adventure dealing with the summer without the luxury of AC. The thought takes me back to the days almost 30 yrs ago when we taught in our Georgia public schools without air-conditioning. I did it then? – Right? Only difference is that I didn’t have hot flashes back then
