"Hate Asia yet?"

Everyday brings a new storm. It rains all night and then rains most of the day, when it doesn't rain, the humidity soars. The overabundance of rain is putting a strain on the city's antiquated sewage system that clearly can't handle tens of millions of people let alone flooding and tens of millions of people so there is a very peculiar smell wafting about. The rain isn't like a soft summer rain, but more of a hard angry downpour that can last for hours on end. With this brings problems, each time the lightning gets closer and closer another part of our vaunted technological armory goes down, leaving us teaching with only a chalkboard and oftentimes, no lights, or air conditioning. Put 150 people into a room designed for 100 for 2 hours with no air conditioning and you get another curious aroma to mix in with all the others. With all of this, people have been getting sick. We're heavily short-staffed and overburdened as is, with about 20 people (including hastily "trained" summer staff) trying to handle 1,000 students, so when one person goes down it's an extra burden on everyone else. Right now, we have three down so that's bordering on crisis. I'd say the sky is falling, but it already has been for about a week now. All of this just adds to the overwhelming feeling felt by the newest short term people we have who just got to China two days ago....As one of them came in soaked and drenched after walking back from a class she just got thrown into with a lesson plan, a few tips and good luck, one of the admin team said to her "Hey good job this morning, ya hate Asia yet?"