Eric's Beijing Diary

Sitting here in the Casablanca with a tuna sandwich and a cold beer looking out over Houhai Lake. Beijing is starting to cool off, now. Perhaps I should have stayed out west about a week longer, but I had so much stuff to do before school starts--stuff that didn't get done anyway because of my virus problem. But that's life. After the middle of August, the fever starts to break. It is still hot during the day, but not so terribly humid, and the evenings are cooler. Today it is really nice. I think if I came back about the 20th, I would pretty much avoid the summer swelter.