Last week hit 30 degrees, so Wednesday's period 3 (1:00-2:30) classroom with 120 students was a sauna when I got there several minutes before 1:00 to practice student names and faces. When I saw the poor students fanning their faces and wilting visibly and felt myself getting sweaty, I hustled down the hallway to telephone the administration to ask them to turn on the air conditioner. (There is no control for doing that in the classrooms of Building 8.) The worker I talked with was reluctant at first, but I told her it'd be impossible to have our class, and she said she'd have it turned on. Fifteen minutes later, we started feeling cool air coming in from the ceiling machines and closed all the windows and shut the doors. Thirty minutes later I felt fine and did the class on Protestants and Catholics and Puritans and Anne Bradstreet (too much for 90 minutes as usual!), but after class, two female students told me they'd been too cold! ("The wind was cold," they said shyly.)
ANYWAY, school in Spring Semester gets pretty unbearable due to the humid and hot Japanese summers, from about the end of May. This year got bad in the middle of May... And whenever I think that in America universities are having graduation and going on vacation by about the end of May, I sigh.
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