Hide From The Climate

From a class with nine- and ten-year-olds the day before yesterday:

Teacher: Which season do you like?

Student: I like summer, because I can turn on the air-conditioning.

I'm always amazed at the number of Taiwanese who can't endure the heat here, even though they grew up here (and grew up without air-conditioning, in many cases). Environmental education has some way to go, of course. Still, I've achieved one thing with the kids I teach English to: Now, if they buy tea on the way to class, they know not to get one of those useless-for-anything-else cup-sized plastic bags.